regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect

regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect

[AngusC]

I expected to be able to do things like this:

Example text to find
1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env1,1,
1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env2,1,
1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env3,1,

But if my regex search string is
^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]

Then it only finds text up to 1, Passed,0,Q

How do I get it to find all of text like A_BC_D and A_CCCCCC_S
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Re: regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

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AngusC wrote:
> I expected to be able to do things like this:
> 
> Example text to find
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env1,1,
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env2,1,
> 1, Passed,0,Q_Mitel2_with_hub_Env3,1,
> 
> But if my regex search string is
> ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]
> 
> Then it only finds text up to 1, Passed,0,Q
> 
> How do I get it to find all of text like A_BC_D and A_CCCCCC_S

	Putting a set of characters between square brackets will only match
one character from the set. You can then use the usual repetition
operators (?, *, or +) to match more than one character (so in your
case, ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]+ should do what you want).

		Jerome
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Re: regex with [_A-Z] not working as I expect

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.05.2012 um 12:28 schrieb AngusC:

> But if my regex search string is
> ^1, Passed,0,[_A-Za-z0-9]
> 
> Then it only finds text up to 1, Passed,0,Q

That is correct behaviour! It finds exactly one character of the given set. If you want to find more, you need to add a + for example.

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