Regular expression issue

[simon_s_li]

Hi,

I am trying to extract some letters from a piece of string, but I do
not know how many letters I need to extract.

All I know is that there are letters that follow the letter:

Example:

At the moment I am using the following regualr expression:

(XX|YY)(\w\w)(\d{1,15})

Two example strings are:

EXAMPLE 1 - XXAB123456789
EXAMPLE 2 - YYABC123456789

I know I can get the XX or YY

However in both example strings I need to get AB or ABC.

However my regular expression (XX|YY)(\w\w)(\d{1,15}) will only get AB
in EXAMPLE 1 which is correct
but it will only get AB in EXAMPLE 2 and not ABC.

If I use (XX|YY)(\w\w\w)(\d{1,15}) it will get AB1 in EXAMPLE 1 rather
than AB.

Can anyone help me?

Regards
Simon

[Rik]

si********@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to extract some letters from a piece of string, but I do
not know how many letters I need to extract.

All I know is that there are letters that follow the letter:

Example:

At the moment I am using the following regualr expression:

(XX|YY)(\w\w)(\d{1,15})

Two example strings are:

EXAMPLE 1 - XXAB123456789
EXAMPLE 2 - YYABC123456789

I know I can get the XX or YY

However in both example strings I need to get AB or ABC.

However my regular expression (XX|YY)(\w\w)(\d{1,15}) will only get AB
in EXAMPLE 1 which is correct
but it will only get AB in EXAMPLE 2 and not ABC.

If I use (XX|YY)(\w\w\w)(\d{1,15}) it will get AB1 in EXAMPLE 1 rather
than AB.

(XX|YY)([a-zA-z]+)([0-9]{1,15})
--
Rik Wasmus

[Julian Turner]

si********@hotmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to extract some letters from a piece of string, but I do
not know how many letters I need to extract.

All I know is that there are letters that follow the letter:

Example:

At the moment I am using the following regualr expression:

(XX|YY)(\w\w)(\d{1,15})

Two example strings are:

EXAMPLE 1 - XXAB123456789
EXAMPLE 2 - YYABC123456789

I know I can get the XX or YY

However in both example strings I need to get AB or ABC.

However my regular expression (XX|YY)(\w\w)(\d{1,15}) will only get AB
in EXAMPLE 1 which is correct
but it will only get AB in EXAMPLE 2 and not ABC.

If I use (XX|YY)(\w\w\w)(\d{1,15}) it will get AB1 in EXAMPLE 1 rather
than AB.

Can anyone help me?

Regards
Simon

Hi

Look at character ranges - e.g. /[A-Z]/

Thus

(XX|YY)([A-Z]+)(\d{1,15})

or

(XX|YY)([A-Z]{1,3})(\d{1,15})

Regards

Julian Turner