RegEx to find two words within one whole word

Question

Very simple, but I cannot get it to work.

I want to find two words inside a continous string (or one whole word)

example

Find me the two words - "student" and "name" only in whole strings (unseparated with whitespace or other words/chars)

So find it in these...

"studentname"

"studentpreferredname"

"studentgivennames"

"student_name"

"student(^&(&(&(&&^&^&^&^&^%&^%name"

But not in these ...

"student name"

"student [multiple spaces] name"

"student is their name"

"the student's name is"

"A long time ago I wanted this student to have a similar name to"

The only thing I can get to sort of work is regex:

student.*name

But that brings in the cases above with all sorts of characters and words inbetween.

Thank you

UPDATE

See answer below.

This worked perfectly.

\bstudent\S*name\b

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '16 at 06:55

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If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to match with no space character between student and name.

If that is the case, try student[^ ]*name. [^ ] matches a character that is not a space.

answered Mar 17 '16 at 06:55

Chuancong Gao

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No. Not just those with a space(s) in between. I want to find the words STUDENT and NAME inside a WHOLE word (string). Not those with words and spaces inbetween, if you know what I mean. – Fandango68 Mar 21 '16 at 04:30

Walerian Sobczak · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-17T07:05:40.697

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A dot in regular expressions /./ is any character except a newline, that's why it doesn't work for you.

You probably need to use a non-whitespace character /\S/, which is a simpification of /[^ \t\r\n\f]/. Finally, your regex should look like this:

/student\S*name/

You can read more about regular expressions in Ruby in documentation.

edited Mar 17 '16 at 07:05

answered Mar 17 '16 at 06:59

Walerian Sobczak

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Sorry I gave you kudos, but I've removed them. The above does not work. I am using grepWin and its Test regex feature. I've typed simple "studentname" and no match. I've tried "studentpreferredname" and again no match. – Fandango68 Mar 21 '16 at 05:33
Actually it did work. I just needed to replace the '/' with '\b' – Fandango68 Mar 21 '16 at 06:26
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It's because I used `Ruby` syntax for Regex. I'm glad I could help. – Walerian Sobczak Mar 21 '16 at 06:28

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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This resolved it for me (from here).

\bstudent\S*name\b

edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

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answered Mar 21 '16 at 06:24

Fandango68

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RegEx to find two words within one whole word

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