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Zaid Khan
12,769 PointsHow to Match and Exclude for exercise 02
I am stuck in exercise 2. So far I am able to match but couldn't exclude numbers 4.
Here is what I was trying:
[\d\sab]
Test String:
1 a
2 a
3 a
4 a
5 a
8 a
9 b
4 c
4 E
Please any help would be appreciated.
Zaid Khan
12,769 PointsHello, Ashish Mehra
I tried your solution it's excluding perfectly but also not matching the 4 a string now.
2 Answers
Zaid Khan
12,769 PointsI tried playing with Ashish Mehra RE and came up with
(?![4]\s[cE])\d+ \w
It matched and excluded as well.
Please share if someone came up with a different solution.
Ashish Mehra
2,411 PointsAwesome cheers,
Want to share https://regexr.com/ is a great tool which I forgot to mention earlier. It give description of each character in regex expression.
Zaid Khan
12,769 PointsThank you Ashish Mehra I will surely check this out, this seems very helpful.
gurgucristian
7,692 PointsVery late answer but
\d [ab]
works as well and is the simplest solution I can think of.
Ashish Mehra
2,411 PointsAshish Mehra
2,411 PointsHi Zaid Khan ,
I come up with this solution
(?![4])\d+ \wYou can test and play with regex (here)[https://regex101.com/]