Question

Given input such as the following (where there could be any number of comma separated values; in this example only 3)

Abc (xyz) asd 123 - 1 MMM, xcz8c.8x - 5 MMMs, hello - world - 1 MMM

What’s the regular expression that will capture the following 3 elements:

  Abc (xyz) asd 123
  xcz8c.8x
  hello - world

Answer 1

In python:

>>> import re
>>> s = 'Abc (xyz) asd 123 - 1 MMM, xcz8c.8x - 5 MMMs, hello - world - 1 MMM'
>>> re.findall(r'[ |,]*(.*?) - \d+ MMMs?', s)
['Abc (xyz) asd 123', 'xcz8c.8x', 'hello - world']