Best way to use spreadsheet RegEx to extract text and numbers and replace with the formatting? - regex

Question

I'm currently working on a non profit project where I need to reformat the way the data in the rows displays.
At the moment, this is how the row data looks:
Save The Children (Donation)|10.00{0}{2}
And I need it to output like this instead:
donation_id:save_children|quantity:1|total:10.00
The first problem is sometimes there's multiple items within the row:
Save The Children (Donation)|10.00{0}{2} / Save The Forrest|15.50{0}{2}
In which case it would need to be separated by a semicolon:
donation_id:save_children|quantity:1|total:10.00;donation_id:save_forrest|quantity:1|total:15.50
The second problem is, we have 9 donation variables/causes, each needing to convert the output to a different "donation_id".
So every time it finds:
Save the Children, it needs to convert to: donation_id:save_children
Save the Forrest, to, donation_id:save_forrest
Save the Animals, to, donation_id:save_animals
And so forth.
And the third problem is that the donation amounts are variable (as people donate whatever they wish), so the "total:" dollar value that we ouput will often be different.
How would I go about doing this with the regex?
Thank you

Answer 1

You can use below regex
(Save) The (Children|Forrest|Animals).*?\|([0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\{0\}\{2\}([\s\/]+)?
substitution/replace with
donation_id:$1_$2|quantity:1|total:$3;
When I test for
Save The Children (Donation)|10.00{0}{2} / Save The Forrest|15.50{0}{2}
Output is
donation_id:Save_Children|quantity:1|total:10.00;donation_id:Save_Forrest|quantity:1|total:15.50;
Test it online!