Question

I have following text pattern

(2222) First Last (ab-cd/ABC1), <[e-mail]> 1224: efadsfadsfdsf

(3333) First Last (abcd/ABC12), <[e-mail]> 1234, 4657: efadsfadsfdsf

I want the number 1224 or 1234, 4657 from the above text after the text >.

I have this
\((\d+)\)\s\w*\s\w*\s\(\w*\/\w+\d*\),\s<\w*\.\w*\@\w*\.domain.com>\s\d+:
which will take the text before : But i want the one after email till :

Is there any easy regular expression to do this? or should I use split and do this

Thanks

Edit: The whole text is returned by a command line tool.

(3333) First Last (abcd/ABC12), <[e-mail]> 1234, 4657: efadsfadsfdsf

(3333) – Unique ID

First Last – First and last names

<[e-mail]> – Email address in format [e-mail]

1234, 4567 – database primary Keys

: xxxx – Headline

What I have to do is process the above and get hte database ID (in ex: 1234, 4567 2 separate ID’s) and query the tables

The above is the output (like this I will get many entries) from the tool which I am calling via my Perl script.

My idea was to use a regular expression to get the database id’s. Guess I could use regular expression for this

Answer 1

you can fudge the stuff you don’t care about to make the expression easier, say just ‘glob’ the parts between the parentheticals (and the email delimiters) using non-greedy quantifiers:

/(\d+)\).*?\(.*?\),\s*<.*?>\s*(\d+(?:,\s*\d+)*):/   (not tested!)

there’s only two captured groups, the (1234), and the (1234, 4657), the second one which I can only assume from your pattern to mean: “a digit string, followed by zero or more comma separated digit strings”.