Question

I found this regex somewhere online that finds strings in my files that are likely presented to the user for a localization clean-up. However, I have a new task to find specific instances of two words and I thought I could use the same regex. I have tried several combinations but I’m just not good enough at regex to get it right.

Current regex for finding strings:

(?<=text=|label=|prompt=|toolTip=|title=|icon=|String=|Error=|Separator=|Symbol=)(("(?:\.|(\\\")|[^\""\n])*")|('(?:\.|(\\\')|[^\''\n])*'))

But now I want it to also capture if the words: catalog or in stock exist anywhere between the quotes.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

OK, this should do it, I believe:

(?<=text=|label=|prompt=|toolTip=|title=|icon=|String=|Error=|Separator=|Symbol=)((?:"(?:\.|(\\\")|[^\""\n])*\b(?:catalog|in stock)\b(?:\.|(\\\")|[^\""\n])*")|(?:'(?:\.|(\\\')|[^\''\n])*\b(?:catalog|in stock)\b(?:\.|(\\\')|[^\''\n])*'))

All I did was add \b(?:catalog|in stock)\b in the quote section. For example, for the double-quote section, it used to be this:

"(?:\.|(\\\")|[^\""\n])*"

I.e. any number of non-quote (unless escaped), non-return characters between double-quotes.

Now it is this:

"(?:\.|(\\\")|[^\""\n])*\b(?:catalog|in stock)\b(?:\.|(\\\")|[^\""\n])*"

Which is a double-quote, any number of legal characters as above, “catalog” or “in stock”, any number of more legal characters, and a quote.