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Re: Need help with a regex pattern

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:23 AM <smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am not very good with RegEx yet so please bear with me.

FWIW: Any sufficiently advanced regular expression is
indistinguishable from modem line noise.


I am programmatically searching source for variable names and this regex
eliminates anything with a valid variable name char before or after the
variable. For example, if I am searching for ACCT, this would eliminate
ACCT01 or EXPACCT but not ACCT, or ACCT)

Will this work?

(?:\s+)ACCT(?:[^\w_@#\$]+)

You can experiment with it here: https://regex101.com/r/0UsAVL/1

david


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