Simple question

Hi,

I am very new with RegEx.

I have a variable containing 3 datas (Salary, Name, Job) separated by 3 separators: £ { }

The variable contains: £45000{Barak Obama}President

We user the regular expresion below to retrieve the first data:
£\s*(((?!£|{).)+)\s*{
The result is: £45000{

Problem: we want to remove the separators "£" and "{" to only have 45000
How is it possible with regular expressions ?

Thanks !

You should extract the first subexpression by using \1 or $1 in the replacement text. Depending on the programming language that you use, it will be $1 (Perl) or \1 (Python).

You can also use lookbehind/lookahead:



If the salary can contain only digits, you should use \d+

(((?!£|{).)+) can be replaced with shorter and more effective [^£{]+

You should get the very first subexpression by utilizing \1 or perhaps $1 inside substitute wording. With respect to the coding words which you work with, it'll be $1 (Perl) or perhaps \1 (Python).