Question

I have a number of strings that have a format loosely like this:

String blah =  "Blah bleh bluh Id. 24 bleh" ;

String bleh = "Foo Bar Foo Id 24" ;

String foo =  "Blah Foo Bleh Bar Tag.93 foo" ;

String bar ="Junk Jibberish Id.93" ;

Where I have some text, ultimately followed by some string that is in a set of possible identifiers (ID, Id, Identifier, Tag, etc.), followed then by either no spacing, a period and a space, just a period, or just a space, and then some number (1-4 digits) and possibly more text after that

I want to capture the substring in the format of “id93” or “tag93” or “id24” etc.

Kind of a specific question, I know, but I have no consistent single characters to separate the data I’m trying to capture.

What Regex pattern should I follow?

Answer 1

Use regex pattern \b(id|tag)\.?\s*(\d{1,4})\b with case insensitivity modifier and join groups 1 & 2.

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Edit: Java regex format: \\b(id|tag)\\.?\\s*(\\d{1,4})\\b