Match only closing brackets - regex

In the following string I have to find only 1) and 2):
"Dsfgdsf ghdsgtaq sadf 5hs a sdgewrg1) AF AFDS (1,1-3). sdfwurf sgwefasöpopwe qdasda (2,3-29). jkgwgvsd sdfawefas2)"
With \d\) I find all closing brackets.
With \((.*?)\) I find (1,1-3) and (2,3-29).
How do I manage to combine both patterns?

It seems you need to match 1 or more digits with a ) after them only if preceded with a letter.
You may use
(?<=\p{L})\d+\)
See the regex demo.
Details
(?<=\p{L}) - a positvie lookbehind requiring a letter to be present immediately to the left of the current position
\d+ - 1+ digits
\) - a literal ).

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Regex to get value from <key, value> by asserting conditions on the value

I have a regex which takes the value from the given key as below
Regex .*key="([^"]*)".* InputValue key="abcd-qwer-qaa-xyz-vwxc"
output abcd-qwer-qaa-xyz-vwxc
But, on top of this i need to validate the value with starting only with abcd- and somewhere the following pattern matches -xyz
Thus, the input and outputs has to be as follows:
I tried below which is not working as expected
.*key="([^"]*)"?(/Babcd|-xyz).*
The key value pair is part of the large string as below:
object{one="ab-vwxc",two="value1",key="abcd-eest-wd-xyz-bnn",four="obsolete Values"}
I think by matching the key its taking the value and that's y i used this .*key="([^"]*)".*
Note:
Its a dashboard. you can refer this link and search for Regex: /"([^"]+)"/ This regex is applied on the query result which is a string i referred. Its working with that regex .*key="([^"]*)".* above. I'm trying to alter with that regexGroup itself. Hope this helps?
Can anyone guide or suggest me on this please? That would be helpful. Thanks!
Looks like you could do with:
\bkey="(abcd(?=.*-xyz\b)(?:-[a-z]+){4})"
See the demo online
\bkey=" - A word-boundary and literally match 'key="'
( - Open 1st capture group.
abcd - Literally match 'abcd'.
(?=.*-xyz\b) - Positive lookahead for zero or more characters (but newline) followed by literally '-xyz' and a word-boundary.
(?: - Open non-capturing group.
-[a-z]+ - Match an hyphen followed by at least a single lowercase letter.
){4} - Close non-capture group and match it 4 times.
) - Close 1st capture group.
" - Match a literal double quote.
I'm not a 100% sure you'd only want to allow for lowercase letter so you can adjust that part if need be. The whole pattern validates the inputvalue whereas you could use capture group one to grab you key.
Update after edited question with new information:
Prometheus uses the RE2 engine in all regular expressions. Therefor the above suggestion won't work due to the lookarounds. A less restrictive but possible answer for OP could be:
\bkey="(abcd(?:-\w+)*-xyz(?:-\w+)*)"
See the online demo
Will this work?
Pattern
\bkey="(abcd-[^"]*\bxyz\b[^"]*)"
Demo
You could use the following regular expression to verify the string has the desired format and to match the portion of the string that is of interest.
(?<=\bkey=")(?=.*-xyz(?=-|$))abcd(?:-[a-z]+)+(?=")
Start your engine!
Note there are no capture groups.
The regex engine performs the following operations.
(?<=\bkey=") : positive lookbehind asserts the current
position in the string is preceded by 'key='
(?= : begin positive lookahead
.*-xyz : match 0+ characters, then '-xyz'
(?=-|$) : positive lookahead asserts the current position is
: followed by '-' or is at the end of the string
) : end non-capture group
abcd : match 'abcd'
(?: : begin non-capture group
-[a-z]+ : match '-' followed by 1+ characters in the class
)+ : end non-capture group and execute it 1+ times
(?=") : positive lookahead asserts the current position is
: followed by '"'

How to find more than one match of numbers utilizing regex

I am attempting to pick apart data from the following string utlizing a regex expression:
Ethane, C2 11.7310 3.1530 13.9982 HV, Dry # Base P,T 1432.00
The ultimate goal is to be able to pull out the middle three data points as individual values 11.7310, 3.153, 13.9982
The code expression I am working with at the moment is as follows:
(?<=C2 )(\d*\.?\d+)
This yields a full match of 11.7310 and a Group 1 match of 11.7310, but I can't figure out how to match the other two data points.
I am using PCRE (PHP) to create my expression.
You may use
(?:\G(?!^)|\bC2)\s+\K\d*\.?\d+
See the regex demo.
Details
(?:\G(?!^)|\bC2) - either the end of the previous successful match or C2 whole word
\s+ - 1+ whitespaces
\K - match reset operator discarding all the text matched so far in the match memory buffer
\d* - 0+ digits
\.? - an optional dot
\d+ - 1+ digits.

Regex match depending on lookbehind match

I need to match these values:
(First approach to a regex that roughly does what I want)
\d+([.,]\d{3})*[.,]\d{2}
like
24,56
24.56
1.234,56
1,234.56
1234,56
1234.56
but I need to not match
1.234.56
1,234,56
So somehow I need to check the last occurrence of "." or "," to not be the same as the previous "." or ",".
Background: Amounts shall be matched in English and German format with (optional) 1000-Separators.
But even with help of regex101 I completely fail at coming up with a correctly working look-behind. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
UPDATE
Based on the answers I got so far, I came up with this (demo):
\d{1,3}(?:([\.,'])?\d{3})*(?!\1)[\.,\s]\d{2}
But it matches for example 1234.567,23 which is not desirable.
You may capture the digit grouping symbol and use a negative lookahead with a backreference to restrict the decimal separator:
^(?:\d+|\d{1,3}(?:([.,])\d{3})*)(?!\1)[.,]\d{2}$
^ ^ ^^^^^
See the regex demo
Group 1 will contain the last value of the digit grouping symbol and (?!\1)[.,] will match the other symbol.
Details:
^ - start of string
(?:\d+|\d{1,3}(?:([.,])\d{3})*) - either of the two alternatives:
\d+ - 1+ digits
| - or
\d{1,3} - 1 to 3 digits,
(?:([.,])\d{3})* - zero or more sequences of:
([.,]) - Group 1 capturing . or ,
\d{3} - 3 digits
(?!\1)[.,] - a . or , but not equal to what was last captured with ([.,]) pattern above
\d{2} - 2 digits
$ - end of string.
You can use
^\d+(([.,])\d{3})*(?!\2)[.,]\d{2}$
live demo

extract substring with regular expression

I have a string, actually is a directory file name.
str='\\198.168.0.10\share\ccdfiles\UA-midd3-files\UA0001A_15_Jun_2014_08.17.49\Midd3\y12m05d25h03m16.midd3'
I need to extract the target substring 'UA0001A' with matlab (well I would like think all tools should have same syntax).
It does not necessary to be exact 'UA0001A', it is arbitrary alphabet-number combination.
To make it more general, I would like to think the substring (or the word) shall satisfy
it is a alphabet-number combination word
it cannot be pure alphabet word or pure number word
it cannot include 'midd' or 'midd3' or 'Midd3' or 'MIDD3', etc, so may use case-intensive method to exclude word begin with 'midd'
it cannot include 'y[0-9]{2,4}m[0-9]{1,2}d[0-9]{1,2}\w*'
How to write the regular expression to find the target substring?
Thanks in advance!
You can use
s = '\\198.168.0.10\share\ccdfiles\UA-midd3-files\UA0001A_15_Jun_2014_08.17.49\Midd3\y12m05d25h03m16.midd3';
res = regexp(s, '(?i)\\(?![^\W_]*(midd|y\d+m\d+))(?=[^\W_]*\d)(?=[^\W_]*[a-zA-Z])([^\W_]+)','tokens');
disp(res{1}{1})
See the regex demo
Pattern explanation:
(?i) - the case-insensitive modifier
\\ - a literal backslash
(?![^\W_]*(midd|y\d+m\d+)) - a negative lookahead that will fail a match if there are midd or y+digits+m+digits after 0+ letters or digits
(?=[^\W_]*\d) - a positive lookahead that requires at least 1 digit after 0+ digits or letters ([^\W_]*)
(?=[^\W_]*[a-zA-Z]) - there must be at least 1 letter after 0+ letters or digits
([^\W_]+) - Group 1 (what will extract) matching 1+ letters or digits (or 1+ characters other than non-word chars and _).
The 'tokens' "mode" will let you extract the captured value rather than the whole match.
See the IDEONE demo
this should get you started:
[\\](?i)(?!.*midd.*)([a-z]+[0-9]+[a-z0-9]*|[a-z]+[0-9]+[a-z0-9]*)
[\\] : match a backslash
(?i) : rest of regex is case insensitive
?! following match can not match this
(?!.*midd.*) : following match can not be a word wich has any character, midd, any character
([a-z]+[0-9]+[a-z0-9]*|[a-z]+[0-9]+[a-z0-9]*) match at least one number followed by at least one letter OR at least one letter followed by at least one number followed by any amount of letters and numbers (remember, cannot match the ?! group so no word which contains mid )

R- regex extracting a string between a dash and a period

First of all I apologize if this question is too naive or has been repeated earlier. I tried to find it in the forum but I'm posting it as a question because I failed to find an answer.
I have a data frame with column names as follows;
head(rownames(u))
[1] "A17-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240" "A18-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240" "B19-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240"
[4] "B20-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240" "A21-R-Transgenic-C-3.AT2G41240" "A22-R-Transgenic-C-3.AT2G41240"
What I want is to use regex in R to extract the string in between the first dash and the last period.
Anticipated results are,
[1] "R-Null-C-3" "R-Null-C-3" "R-Null-C-3"
[4] "R-Null-C-3" "R-Transgenic-C-3" "R-Transgenic-C-3"
I tried following with no luck...
gsub("^[^-]*-|.+\\.","\\2", rownames(u))
gsub("^.+-","", rownames(u))
sub("^[^-]*.|\\..","", rownames(u))
Would someone be able to help me with this problem?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Shani.
Here is a solution to be used with gsub:
v <- c("A17-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240", "A18-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240", "B19-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240", "B20-R-Null-C-3.AT2G41240", "A21-R-Transgenic-C-3.AT2G41240", "A22-R-Transgenic-C-3.AT2G41240")
gsub("^[^-]*-([^.]+).*", "\\1", v)
See IDEONE demo
The regex matches:
^[^-]* - zero or more characters other than -
- - a hyphen
([^.]+) - Group 1 matching and capturing one or more characters other than a dot
.* - any characters (even including a newline since perl=T is not used), any number of occurrences up to the end of the string.
This can easily be achieved with the following regex:
-([^.]+)
# look for a dash
# then match everything that is not a dot
# and save it to the first group
See a demo on regex101.com. Outputs are:
R-Null-C-3
R-Null-C-3
R-Null-C-3
R-Null-C-3
R-Transgenic-C-3
R-Transgenic-C-3
Regex
-([^.]+)\\.
Description
- matches the character - literally
1st Capturing group ([^\\.]+)
[^\.]+ match a single character not present in the list below
Quantifier: + Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy]
. matches the character . literally
\\. matches the character . literally
Debuggex Demo
Output
MATCH 1
1. [4-14] `R-Null-C-3`
MATCH 2
1. [29-39] `R-Null-C-3`
MATCH 3
1. [54-64] `R-Null-C-3`
MATCH 4
1. [85-95] `R-Null-C-3`
MATCH 5
1. [110-126] `R-Transgenic-C-3`
MATCH 6
1. [141-157] `R-Transgenic-C-3`
This seems an appropriate case for lookarounds:
library(stringr)
str_extract(v, '(?<=-).*(?=\\.)')
where
(?<= ... ) is a positive lookbehind, i.e. it looks for a - immediately before the next captured group;
.* is any character . repeated 0 or more times *;
(?= ... ) is a positive lookahead, i.e. it looks for a period (escaped as \\.) following what is actually captured.
I used stringr::str_extract above because it's more direct in terms of what you're trying to do. It is possible to do the same thing with sub (or gsub), but the regex has to be uglier:
sub('.*?(?<=-)(.*)(?=\\.).*', '\\1', v, perl = TRUE)
.*? looks for any character . from 0 to as few as possible times *? (lazy evaluation);
the lookbehind (?<=-) is the same as above;
now the part we want .* is put in a captured group (...), which we'll need later;
the lookahead (?=\\.) is the same;
.* captures any character, repeated 0 to as many as possible times (here the end of the string).
The replacement is \\1, which refers to the first captured group from the pattern regex.