Regex to capture data - regex

Question

I am trying to capture a set of strings using regular expressions.
The strings are of the following format
CID _At 1 2 99 1,198,498,377 414 0 0 0 3,694
The expression that I came up with is
[A-Za-z][a-z0-9A-Z_-]*\s*[0-6]\s*[0-4]\s\s[\s\d]\d\s*[0-9,]*\s*[0-9,]*\s*[0-9,]*\s*[0-9,]*\s*0\s*[0-9,]*
Although this expression works for me,and gives the necessary output ,I feel that it is not optimized .
Can someone help me optimize the expression ?

Answer 1

<?php
$text = 'CID _At 1 2 99 1,198,498,377 414 0 0 0 3,694';
preg_match("/^[A-Z]+\s+[A-Za-z_]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9,]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+\s+[0-9,]+$/", $text, $m);
print_r($m);
preg_match("/^([A-Z]+)\s+([A-Za-z_]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9,]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+([0-9,]+)$/", $text, $m);
print_r($m);
/*
Output:
Array
(
[0] => CID _At 1 2 99 1,198,498,377 414 0 0 0 3,694
)
Array
(
[0] => CID _At 1 2 99 1,198,498,377 414 0 0 0 3,694
[1] => CID
[2] => _At
[3] => 1
[4] => 2
[5] => 99
[6] => 1,198,498,377
[7] => 414
[8] => 0
[9] => 0
[10] => 0
[11] => 3,694
)
*/
remove the * and if you need group the internal matches with ()
example in php, if you need some length, replace "+" by "{1}" (1 char length)
if you need, minimum 1 and max 3 {1,3}
if you need minimum 1 and maximum infinite {1,}