How can I use Regex to capture a certain set of ages? - regex

I have a set of data, like below;
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1,1
1,2
1,3
2,12
11,13,15
7,8,12
And so on... I am trying to use Regex in to target a certain set of ages between 1-7, but I am getting matches on any double digit which contains any of these characters too. My regex is currently as below;
/^(1)|(2)|(3)|(4)|(5)|(6)|(7)|$/g
My current matches include 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 - perfect. However, it matches the line with 11,13,15 and 7,8,12 - not what I wanted.
Any advice would be appreciated on how to resolve? Thanks in advance, I am continuing to try to correct.

You can use word boundaries:
\b[1-7]\b
See a demo on regex101.com.
As pointed out by #Quantic, this matches numbers from 1-7 regardless where they are.
If you only want to have lines where there is a number between 1-7, you'll need to use anchors:
^[0-7]$
Or if you want to capture the number:
^([0-7])$
With this, you'll need the multiline flag, see a demo on regex101.com as well.

(?<!\d)[1-7](?!\d)
This looks for any digit 1-7 that does not have another digit on either side of it. (using negative lookbehind/lookahead)
regex101 test

Related

RegEx multiple capture groups replaced in a string

I have a string of data...
"123456712J456","D","TEST1~TEST2~TEST3~TEST4~TEST5"
I want to take the following string and make 5 strings.
"123456712J456","D","TEST1"
"123456712J456","D","TEST2"
"123456712J456","D","TEST3"
"123456712J456","D","TEST4"
"123456712J456","D","TEST5"
I currently have the following regex...
//In a program like Textpad
<FIND> "\(.\{13\}\)","D","\([^~]*\)~\(.*\)
<REPLACE> "\1","D","\2"\n"\1","D","\3
//On the regex101 site
"(.{13})","D","([^~]*)~(.*)
Now if I run this 5 times it would work fine. The problem is there is an unknown number of lines to be made. For example...
"123456712J456","D","TEST1~TEST2~TEST3~TEST4~TEST5"
"123456712J457","D","TEST1~TEST2~TEST3"
"123456712J458","D","TEST1~TEST2"
"123456712J459","D","TEST1~TEST2~TEST3~TEST4"
I was hoping to be able to use a MULTI capture group to make this work. I found this PAGE talking about the common mistake between repeating a capturing group and capturing a repeated group. I need to capture a repeated group. For some reason I just could not make mine work right though. Anyone else have an idea?
RESOURCES:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/captureall.html
http://regex101.com/
Try this.See demo.Just club match1 and rest of the matches.
http://regex101.com/r/yR3mM3/17
RegEx:
(.*,)|([^"~]+)
Example:
"1234567123456","T","TEST1~TEST2~TEST3~TEST4~TEST5"
Results:
MATCH 1
1. [0-20] `"1234567123456","T",`
MATCH 2
2. [21-26] `TEST1`
MATCH 3
2. [27-32] `TEST2`
MATCH 4
2. [33-38] `TEST3`
MATCH 5
2. [39-44] `TEST4`
MATCH 6
2. [45-50] `TEST5`

Regex - how to make sure a string contain a word and numbers

I need a little help with Regex.
I want the regex to validate the following sentences:
fdsufgdsugfugh PCL 6
dfdagf PCL 11
fdsfds PCL6
fsfs PCL13
kl;klkPCL6
fdsgfdsPCL13
some chars, than PCL and than 6 or a greater number.
How this can be done?
I'd go with something like this:
^(.*)(PCL *)([6-9][0-9]*|[1-5][0-9]+)$
Meaning:
(.*) = some chars
(PCL *) = then PCL with optional whitespaces afterwards
([6-9][0-9]*|[1-5][0-9]+) then 6 or a greater number
This one should suit your needs:
^.*PCL\s*(?:[6-9]|\d{2,})$
Visualization by Debuggex
In bash:
EXPR=^[a-zA-Z]\+ *PCL *\([6-9]\|[0-9]\{2,\}\)
Translated:
Line begins with at least 1 occurence of a character (ignore caps)
Any amount of spaces, PCL, any amount of spaces
Either a number between 6 or 9, or a number with at least 2 digits
This expression used with something like grep "$EXPR" file.txt will output in stdout the lines that are valid.
This worked well for me. Reads logically too according to the way you described the matching
/[^PCL]+PCL\s?*[6-9]\d*/

How to match a one of a set of numbers?

I am trying to match a group of numbers in regex that consist of one of the following:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
But I am having trouble figuring out the regex.
For single digits this pattern worked fine "0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9" but it fails on double digit numbers. For example 12 passes as ok due to the regex finding the 1 in 12.
You can use begin and end anchors to force the whole string to be matched:
^(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11)$
Which can be shortened to:
^(\d|10|11)$
This will work if you want to check if just one number is between 0 and 11.
^[0-9]$|^1?[0-1]$
If you want to match a string like:
1,2,3,12,32,5,1,6,8, 11
and match 0-11 then you can use the following:
(?<=,|^)([0-9]|1?[0-1])(?=,|$)
use this regex ^(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|(10)|(11))$

REGEX : get a text in middle of string and number

The problem I am facing is that if I have this string:
STARTGAME grindurr 9 51 19 3 7 1 2 2 0
...I want to extract name grindurr from the middle. I tried this regex:
STARTGAME\t.*\t[^\d]
...but it didn't work. :( Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
STARTGAME\s+(.*?)\s+\d
might work. The result is then in the first capturing group. You can remove the need for the capturing group by using lookaround, but I don't know the exact capabilities by that regex engine, so above is probably the safest way.
You can use...
STARTGAME\s+(.*?)\s+\d+
That should have the word between STARTGAME and the first number.

What is wrong with this Regular Expression?

I am beginner and have some problems with regexp.
Input text is : something idUser=123654; nick="Tom" something
I need extract value of idUser -> 123456
I try this:
//idUser is already 8 digits number
MatchCollection matchsID = Regex.Matches(pk.html, #"\bidUser=(\w{8})\b");
Text = matchsID[1].Value;
but on output i get idUser=123654, I need only number
The second problem is with nick="Tom", how can I get only text Tom from this expresion.
you don't show your output code, where you get the group from your match collection.
Hint: you will need group 1 and not group 0 if you want to have only what is in the parentheses.
.*?idUser=([0-9]+).*?
That regex should work for you :o)
Here's a pattern that should work:
\bidUser=(\d{3,8})\b|\bnick="(\w+)"
Given the input string:
something idUser=123654; nick="Tom" something
This yields 2 matches (as seen on rubular.com):
First match is User=123654, group 1 captures 123654
Second match is nick="Tom", group 2 captures Tom
Some variations:
In .NET regex, you can also use named groups for better readability.
If nick always appears after idUser, you can match the two at once instead of using alternation as above.
I've used {3,8} repetition to show how to match at least 3 and at most 8 digits.
API links
Match.Groups property
This is how you get what individual groups captured in a match
Use look-around
(?<=idUser=)\d{1,8}(?=(;|$))
To fix length of digits to 6, use (?<=idUser=)\d{6}(?=($|;))