Question

I may have strings that will look something like this:

ABC
DEF-123
456
789GH-IJK-0

And Im trying to figure out a Regex that will group it on strings and numbers, like this:

(ABC)
(DEF-)(123)
(456)
(789)(GH-IJK-)(0)

My first thought was to use (\D*|\d*) as pattern, but the numbers isnt returned

Answer 1

How about using inner non-capturing sub groups…

((?:\D+)|(?:\d+))

Example output from perl…

cat input | perl -ane 'chomp; print "looking at $_\n"; while(/((?:\D+)|(?:\d+))/g) {print "Found $1\n";}'
looking at BC
Found BC
looking at DEF-123
Found DEF-
Found 123
looking at 456
Found 456
looking at 789GH-IJK-0
Found 789
Found GH-IJK-
Found 0