Regex help.

[Artorius]

Shrine of Eliatha [ne].

I thought that this would be the right regex to capture this information, but its not working...

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^(\w+) \[(\w+)\].$

So, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

Artty

[WillFa]

\w is any letter (any word character). It doesn't match spaces.
^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$

is what you want.

[Vadi]

WillFa's solution will work, here is also another one more original to yours:

^(.+) \[(\w+)\].$

[Rakon]

I would use the following match:

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^(.*?)\s+\[([A-z]+)\]\.$

http://www.strfriend.com/vis?re=^(.*%3F)\s%2B\[([A-z]%2B)\]\.$%0D%0A

Versus:

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^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$

http://www.strfriend.com/vis?re=^(.*%3F)+\[(.*%3F)\]$%0D%0A

[Artorius]

Wow, thanks for all the quick replies.

[Vadi]

Now that is a great website.

[Rakon]

Now that is a great website.

Heh, that is a VERY handy website for visuallising RegEx. I also use http://regexpal.com/ for testing.

(Typically, I check the ^$ match at line breaks box) for testing these triggers.

Very handy.

[robg]

\w is any letter (any word character). It doesn't match spaces.
^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$

is what you want.

I'm assuming you're trying to match a room short desc + exits.

Of the posted responses, this is the best one. It backtracks less, and unlike the others, will actually not break if there's more than one exit. I can't speak to the mud you play, but the one I play has some occasionally bizarre exits that [a-z,]+ wouldn't match, so better to be safe than sorry. Although to be fair, I'd probably make the [] section optional so that it can match if there are no obvious exits as well, and use some kind of ansi match to recognize that it's a room (server dependant).

[Rakon]

\w is any letter (any word character). It doesn't match spaces.
^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$

is what you want.

I'm assuming you're trying to match a room short desc + exits.

Of the posted responses, this is the best one. It backtracks less, and unlike the others, will actually not break if there's more than one exit. I can't speak to the mud you play, but the one I play has some occasionally bizarre exits that [a-z,]+ wouldn't match, so better to be safe than sorry. Although to be fair, I'd probably make the [] section optional so that it can match if there are no obvious exits as well, and use some kind of ansi match to recognize that it's a room (server dependant).

There could very well be more information within the [ ]'s , however the OP simply asked for a RegEx that would match on the line given. It states nothing more about requiring capture or parsing of additional text, or tests.

Ask, and you shall receive!

[WillFa]

\w is any letter (any word character). It doesn't match spaces.
^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$

is what you want.

I'm assuming you're trying to match a room short desc + exits.

Of the posted responses, this is the best one. It backtracks less, and unlike the others, will actually not break if there's more than one exit. I can't speak to the mud you play, but the one I play has some occasionally bizarre exits that [a-z,]+ wouldn't match, so better to be safe than sorry. Although to be fair, I'd probably make the [] section optional so that it can match if there are no obvious exits as well, and use some kind of ansi match to recognize that it's a room (server dependant).

There could very well be more information within the [ ]'s , however the OP simply asked for a RegEx that would match on the line given. It states nothing more about requiring capture or parsing of additional text, or tests.

Ask, and you shall receive!

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