regex question Topic is solved

[joshatt]

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variable = abcd-567  ; or 12abcd-567
if RegExMatch(variable,"((\d|\w)+)-(\d+)",vars)
{
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars2
}

The above code can not match as I expected. Any idea?

[gregster]

I am no Regex expert, but I think it would be nice if you would at least mention, what you expect as a result...

[AlphaBravo]

I am guessing this is what you're looking for

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variable = abcd-567  			; or 12abcd-567
if RegExMatch(variable,"((?:\d|\w)+)-(\d+)",vars)
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars2
; or
if RegExMatch(variable,"((\d|\w)+)-(\d+)",vars)
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars3
	
; or
variable = 12abcd-567
if RegExMatch(variable,"(\w+)-(\d+)",vars)		; \w = alpha-numeric
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars2

[joshatt]

I am no Regex expert, but I think it would be nice if you would at least mention, what you expect as a result...

https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/posting.php?mode=quote&f=76&p=264188#postingbox

Sorry my bad, did not make it clear. I want to match the 2 or 3 possabilites (former part could be interger or word or mix) in one code.

[joshatt]

I am guessing this is what you're looking for

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variable = abcd-567  			; or 12abcd-567
if RegExMatch(variable,"((?:\d|\w)+)-(\d+)",vars)
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars2
; or
if RegExMatch(variable,"((\d|\w)+)-(\d+)",vars)
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars3
	
; or
variable = 12abcd-567
if RegExMatch(variable,"(\w+)-(\d+)",vars)		; \w = alpha-numeric
	msgbox,% vars1 . "_" . vars2

Thank you very much, I'll try to learn from this.

[just me]

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...
... ; \w = alpha-numeric
...

Not quite.

\w ... This is equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_]. ...

[AlphaBravo]

Not quite.

\w ... This is equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_]. ...

fair enough