Question

I have this string

hey {Bobby|Apple|Peter}, nice to meet you {David}

and this regex:

(\{(\w+)(\|(\w+))*)\}

the answer:

Bobby
Peter
David

However, it’s not getting “Apple”, how can I fix this to get it as well?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Repetition does not work for groups. Instead, try to iteratively use find on the string. Probably best to first filter out {Bobby|Apple|Peter}, get the names from that, then find {David} and get the names from that. So that would be two finds, if you keep using regular expressions. Or one find, then a split on | from the result.

Regexp for the find: \{(\w+(?:\|\w+)*)\}, then use group 1 (everything within the braces) and split the result.