Can somebody tel me how a regex should look like which searches in "V. Guimaraes - FC-Porto" and gives out:
- "V. Guimaraes"
- "FC-Porto"
EDIT: The Source also could be: "V. Guimaraes - FC-Porto 2:2" "V. Guimaraes - FC-Porto Foo" ...
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A:
You could just split the string at " - " with your programing language's basic string functions. This way you don't even need any regular expressions.
sth
2010-10-11 21:07:53
There is more Text after it, sorry missed to post it.
mullek
2010-10-11 21:08:46
@mullek: You should edit this information into your question. It is very important information when constructing a regular expression (or any other approach for parsing this data). In fact, it would be very useful to see a couple of full lines that you want to extract information from, along with the information you want to extract.
eldarerathis
2010-10-11 21:15:04
A:
([\S\W]*)[\s]{1}-[\s]{1}([\S\W]*)
And you can fetch answer from group 1 and group 2 $1:$2
Konoplianko
2010-10-11 21:12:01
A:
Search for: "(V.\s+Guimaraes)\s*-\s*(FC-Porto\b).*?"\s+"\1\s*-\s*\2.*?"
Replace with: "$1"\r"$2"
So, if your are using PHP, it will be:
$result = preg_replace('/"(V.\s+Guimaraes)\s*-\s*(FC-Porto\b).*?"\s+"\1\s*-\s*\2.*?"/', '"$1"\r"$2"', $sourcestring);
The key is $1 $2 which hold the first and the second result.
\r means return characters (enter), you can replace it with anything you wish, e.g. a space.
Next time, please mention regex library or application you are using.
Vantomex
2010-10-12 01:05:59
A:
Use the split function of your preferred language to do this. eg Python
>>> s="V. Guimaraes - FC-Porto 2:2"
>>> s.split("-",1)
['V. Guimaraes ', ' FC-Porto 2:2']
ghostdog74
2010-10-12 01:12:36