Question

I have been struggle to write regex that matches words longer than a given length within parentheses. First I thought I could do this with \(\w{a,}\) but I realize that it doesn’t match with words with white space (ab cd ef). All I want to do is find out any characters within parentheses longer than, for instance, 3 characters. How can I resolve this problem ?

Answer 1

What is a word with white space?

if you want to match any character then use .

\(.{3,}\)

. matches any character except newlines

But be careful, this is greedy. it will match for example also

(a)123(b)

To avoid this you could do something like

\([^)]{3,}\)

See it here online on Regexr

[^)] means any character except a )