Question

I need to extract numeric values from strings like “£17,000 – £35,000 dependent on experience”

([0-9]+k?[.,]?[0-9]+)

That string is just an example, i can have 17k 17.000 17 17,000, in every string there can be 0,1 or 2 numbers (not more than 2), they can be everywhere in the string, separated by anything else. I just need to extract them, put the first extracted in a place and the second in another.

I could come up with this, but it gives me two matches (don’t mind the k?[,.], it’s correct), in the $1 grouping. I need to have 17,000 in $1 and 35,000 in $2, how can i accomplish this? I can also manage to use 2 different regex

Answer 1

Using regex

With every opening round bracket you create a new capturing group. So to have a second capturing group $2, you need to match the second number with another part of your regex that is within brackets and of course you need to match the part between the to numbers.

([0-9]+k?[.,]?[0-9]+)\s*-\s*.*?([0-9]+k?[.,]?[0-9]+)

See here on Regexr

But could be that Solr has regex functions that put all matches into an array, that would maybe be easier to use.