How to match character groups separated by spaces using RegEx?
How to match character groups separated by spaces using RegEx?
I use the below RegEx to indentify if some string is separated by either AND or OR
AND
OR
W(:?AND|OR)
Examples
Similarly, I want to write a regex which matches all the strings that are separated by only spaces and not by AND or OR.
AND
OR
I tried the below RegEx:
^(?=.*wW+w)(?:[w ](?!W(AND|OR)W))+$
This gave the correct output on:
But an incorrect output on:
To Summarise: What is a way to check if a long string consists only of groups of characters separated just by spaces.
Example of a valid string:
foo1,3 acb[1-2] a foo bar bar(qwer|qwyr)
(Valid since there are spaces separating each block of characters)
just separated by spaces and not by words AND / OR (meaning of underscore is space) eg : foo AND bar is fine ; fooANDbar will not match W(:?AND|OR)W
– zubug55
Aug 28 at 1:37
Does fooANDbar spam matches?
– Daniel Mesejo
Aug 28 at 1:42
What, then, is your definition of a
word? If you only want to check for spaces you can use str.split() and don't even need regex– pkqxdd
Aug 28 at 2:19
word
str.split()
1 Answer
1
This solves my question:
k = "foo1,3 acb[1-2] AND a foo bar bar(qwer|qwyr)"
if not re.search(r'W(:?AND|OR)W', k) and k.strip().find(" ")!=-1:
print "not separated by AND and OR but by space"
else:
print "separated by AND/OR"
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Do you want to check if a string contains a space?
– Daniel Mesejo
Aug 28 at 1:32