Using regular expression to extract full words from text

Question

I have been working with parsing data, I got a string like:

"Scottish Premier League (click here to open|close this coupon)"

I would like to extract "Scottish Premier League" with Scottish Matching Group 1 and Premier League Matching Group 2, using regular expression.

Please show me the way to do that using regular expression.

MatchCollection matchCol = reg.Matches("Scottish Premier League (click here to open|close this coupon)");

Answer 1

/(Scottish) (Premier League)/

Answer 2

Given that you only gave one string to which the regex would be applied, it is hard to tell if this solution would work for your various other cases:

/^(\w*) (.*) \(/

Answer 3

If you just want to match each specific word then your regex could be something like:

(Scottish) (Premier League)

If you want to match the first word then the next two:

([\w]+) ([\w]+ [\w]+)

Answer 4

Basic and direct:

$s =  "Scottish Premier League (click ... coupon)";
$s =~ m/(Scottish) (Premier League)/;
print "Match groups one and two: '$1' '$2'\n";

You probably wanted more generalized matching:

$s =  "Generalized Matching on a string (click ... coupon)";
$s =~ m/^(\S+)\s(.+)\s+\(click/;
print "Match groups one and two: '$1' '$2'\n";

These are Perl; be more specific next time.

Also, help yourself, use a tool, like RegexBuddy or Expresso.