Need a regular expression for matching specific sentence format

Question

Hi everyone. I need a regular expression to match a very specific sentence format. The format is as follow:

word(that can contain ,()[]&^%# and whitespace), word(that can contain ,()[]&^%# and whitespace), word(that can contain ,()[]&^%# and whitespace)

So basically it's a word, word, word but every word can contain some special characters and whitespaces. Can someone help me please?

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Those are the examples:

1. Various Artists, Total 6, I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)
2. Ada, Blindhouse/ Luckycharm, Luckycharm
3. Hector, Orale, Orale (Alex Picone Remix)

Answer 1

I'm not sure that you want to include the , that delimits your sentences in the allowed pattern. If you do want to match a sentence three times:

/^[a-z()[]&^%#\s]+,[a-z()[]&^%#\s]+,[a-z()[]&^%#\s]+$/i

Answer 2

I would use this solution :

/(?x)([a-z\\d\\s()[\\]&^%#\\/]+),((?1)),((?1))/i

This way you don't have to repeat your pattern.

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