Issue extracting values using Regex Topic is solved

[Youri11]

If I do the following :

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i:="Hello12 3"
RegExMatch(i,"([^ ]* )(\d)$",o)
a:=o1
b:=o2
msgbox,% a "--" b
RegExMatch(a,"(.+)(\d+)$",p)
c:=p1
d:=p2
msgbox,% c "--" d

I get empty values for c and d.

While this works perfectly:

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RegExMatch("Hello12","(.+)(\d+)$",p)
c:=p1
d:=p2
msgbox,% c "--" d

I don't understand what is wrong with my first attempt. Please could you help?

Thank you.

[Smile_]

There is space with a variable "Hello12( )" in the first attempt which is not present in the second.

[Youri11]

Oh! Yes. Thank you very much Smile_ for spotting this obvious mistake I wasn't able too see.

I realize I should write my regex differently then. Let me look into it.

[boiler]

You can just remove the $ to address the issue Smile_ pointed out.

Is your last script really working perfectly? Is your desired result really Hello1--2 instead of Hello--12? That wouldn't seem to be the intention since you have \d+ for the second part. If you really want the latter, this would do it:

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i:="Hello12 3"
RegExMatch(i,"([^ ]* )(\d)$",o)
a:=o1
b:=o2
msgbox,% a "--" b
RegExMatch(a,"(\D+)(\d+)",p)
c:=p1
d:=p2
msgbox,% c "--" d

[Youri11]

Thank you also boiler for offering ways to fix my issue. This is appreciated.
Removing the $ indeed fix my mistake. You are totally right about my intention as my desired output is effectively Hello--12

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i:="Hello12 3"
RegExMatch(i,"([^ ]* )(\d)$",o)
a:=o1
b:=o2
msgbox,% a "--" b
RegExMatch(a,"(.*?)(\d+)",p)
c:=p1
d:=p2
msgbox,% c "--" d

Thank you both.
All the best to you.