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Currently I have this string
"RED-CURRENT_FORD-something.something"
I need to capture the word between the hypens. In this case the word CURRENT_FORD
I have the following written
\CURRENT_.*\B-\
Which returns CURRENT_FORD- which is wrong on two levels.
CURRENT
Any more efficient way of capturing the words in between the hyphens without explicitly stating the first word?
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In regular expressions, the hyphen ("-") notation has special meaning; it indicates a range that would match any number from 0 to 9. As a result, you must escape the "-" character with a forward slash ("\") when matching the literal hyphens in a social security number.
To match a character having special meaning in regex, you need to use a escape sequence prefix with a backslash ( \ ). E.g., \. matches "." ; regex \+ matches "+" ; and regex \( matches "(" . You also need to use regex \\ to match "\" (back-slash).
[] denotes a character class. () denotes a capturing group. [a-z0-9] -- One character that is in the range of a-z OR 0-9. (a-z0-9) -- Explicit capture of a-z0-9 .
\\. matches the literal character . . the first backslash is interpreted as an escape character by the Emacs string reader, which combined with the second backslash, inserts a literal backslash character into the string being read. the regular expression engine receives the string \. html?\ ' .
You can use the delimiters to help bound your pattern then capture what you want with parentheses.
/-([^-]+)-/
You can then trim the hyphens off.
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You can use these regex
(?<=-).*?(?=-)//if lookaround is supported
OR
-(.*?)-//captured in group1
.*? matches any character i.e. . 0 to many times i.e. * lazily i.e ?
(?<=-) is a zero width look behind assertion that would match for the character - before the desired match i.e .*? and (?=-) is a zero width look ahead assertion that matches for - character after matching .*?
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