Regular Expressions Help

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Original post by NecoSpes Is there a way I can do "[^(WORD)]+" ? So that, it will match to every character in this sequence until "word": "abcaksjnfakcikjWORDkjancjkl".

  ".*WORD"

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Can you be more specific about what you want to do? Capture everything up to WORD? Find the position of WORD within the match text?

Something like this:

"Item: Laptop \<\a\>\20 in Stock Price: 1,000"

I want to get the Laptop, 20, and 1,000 out.

And to clarify, ".*WORD" will match "abcaksjnfakcikjWORD" ? The .* is like a wild card?

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Original post by NecoSpes Something like this: "Item: Laptop \<\a\>\20 in Stock Price: 1,000" I want to get the Laptop, 20, and 1,000 out.

Ah, so you want to capture certain subexpressions.

Perhaps you want something like this (ECMAScript/Perl5 regexes, syntax varies between regex dialects).

  "Item:\s+(.*)\s*<.*>(\d+)\s+in Stock.*Price:\s+([\d,.]*)"

The item will be in capture 1, the quantity in capture 2, and the price in capture 3. The captures are defined by the subexpressions within parentheses.

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And to clarify, ".*WORD" will match "abcaksjnfakcikjWORD" ? The .* is like a wild card?

Yes, that expression will match. The dot is the wildcard, the star is the Kleene closure (repeat zero or more times until the logest possible match is made).