Question

I’d like to have a regexp in java to only strip off numbers if they are at the end of the string and everything after the underscore.

1) massi_xxx -> massi
2) massi_12121 -> massi
3) massi123 -> massi
4) 123massi1 -> 123massi

I found that
(?=[0-9_]).*
works fine for 1,2,3 use case but not for 4)
Any idea on how to refine it?

Thanks
M.

Answer 1

The following regex should work for most flavors:

(?:_.*|\d*)$

We match either _ followed by anything until the end of the string. Or we match a bunch of digits until the end of string. (The end of string is represented by the anchor $)

Working demo.

Some flavors might choke upon the ?: which is really just an optimization. You can as well leave it out.