Regex expression for "equal any of"

Question

I want to have a regex for if the variable value is equal to any of these values from the list.

I have a list of string values that contains some special characters like $ and -, for example

Accident Only Hospital 750 - Basic
Accident Only Hospital 500 - Basic
Basic Accident Only Hospital $500 Excess
Basic Accident Only Hospital $750 Excess
Basic Hospital Cover with $250 Excess
Basic Hospital Cover with $500 Excess
BASIC HOSPITAL COVER
Basic Plus Starter Hospital $500 Excess
Basic Plus Starter Hospital $750 Excess
Bronze Plus Simple Hospital $250 Excess
Bronze Plus Simple Hospital $500 Excess
Bronze Plus Simple Hospital $750 Excess
Budget Family Hospital Cover with $250 Excess
Budget Family Hospital Cover with $500 Excess
Budget Family Hospital $750 Excess
Budget Hospital with $500 Excess and Ambulance Levy
Budget Hospital with $500 Excess
Budget Hospital with $250 Excess and Ambulance Levy
Budget Hospital with $250 Excess
Budget Hospital with $1000 Excess and Ambulance Levy
Budget Hospital with $1000 Excess
Budget Hospital $750 Excess - Bronze Plus
Established Family Hospital Cover with $250 Excess
Established Family Hospital Cover with $500 Excess
Established Family Hospital Cover with $750 Excess
Gold Complete Hospital $500 Excess
Gold Complete Hospital $750 Excess
Growing Family Hospital Cover with $250 Excess
Growing Family Hospital Cover with $500 Excess
Prime Plus with Nil Excess Hospital
Prime Plus with $250 Excess Hospital
Prime Plus with $500 Excess Hospital
Simple Start Hospital Cover
Silver Plus Advanced Hospital $250 Excess
Silver Plus Advanced Hospital $500 Excess
Silver Plus Advanced Hospital $750 Excess
Silver Plus Essential Hospital $250 Excess
Silver Plus Essential Hospital $500 Excess
Silver Plus Essential Hospital $500 Excess
Top Hospital with Pregnancy
Top Hospital with Pregnancy - Gold
Top Hospital with Pregnancy $250 Excess
Top Hospital with Pregnancy $250 Excess - Gold
Top Hospital with Pregnancy $500 Excess
Top Hospital with Pregnancy $500 Excess - Gold
Top Hospital with Pregnancy $750 Excess
Top Hospital with Pregnancy $750 Excess - Gold
Top Hospital Cover no Pregnancy
Top Hospital Cover no Pregnancy with $250 Excess
Top Hospital Cover no Pregnancy with $500 Excess

can someone please help me with that, i am not good with regex expressions, i have tried different expressions from google but no luck.

What is the variable? For regex, you can learn it here: https://github.com/ziishaned/learn-regex, take about 2-3h to pratice and you can do almost any regex you want — Chicky, Jun 30 '22 at 03:20
variable i mean any value that is part of the list, I am trying to build an audience as I have shown in the screenshot. — Satpal Singh, Jun 30 '22 at 03:22
@Chicky I hope you understood the problem, can you please help me for now? it will be really appreciable, i am in kind of desperate need. I will for sure read the link that you have shared in the evening. — Satpal Singh, Jun 30 '22 at 03:28
I want to create audience based on "hospital product description" as shown in screenshot. If the "hospital product description" value is part of the given list. I have attached another screenshot of regex101 that might help you to understand the issue, please let me know if you need any more info. — Satpal Singh, Jun 30 '22 at 03:38
That regex works fine for me: https://regex101.com/r/XDYJCS/1 — Nick ODell, Jun 30 '22 at 03:48
@NickODell thank you help but I don't think it is correct, it is only matching with first value in list, it is not matching the whole string which is present in testing string. — Satpal Singh, Jun 30 '22 at 03:56
Try this if match whole string is what you need. https://regex101.com/r/g5bCIH/1 — Chicky, Jun 30 '22 at 04:28
Do you want string to be matched that contains special characters ? — novice, Jun 30 '22 at 05:33
[demo link](https://regex101.com/r/Wk6yKQ/1), see if its fulfilling your requirement. — novice, Jun 30 '22 at 05:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 30 '22 at 03:59

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Try with this regular expression

^Top Hospital with Pregnancy[\w\W]*

answered Jun 30 '22 at 03:59

Sudheerkumar Duggireddy

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I have updated the list, so this will not work, can you please have a look again. – Satpal Singh Jun 30 '22 at 04:04
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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '22 at 09:05

You may use the string list pattern generator at Optimize long lists of fixed string alternatives in regex:

^(?:(?:Accident Only Hospital (?:500 - Basic|750 - Basic)|B(?:asic (?:Accident Only Hospital \$(?:500 Excess|750 Excess)|Hospital Cover with \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess)|Plus Starter Hospital \$(?:500 Excess|750 Excess))|ASIC HOSPITAL COVER|ronze Plus Simple Hospital \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess|750 Excess)|udget (?:Family Hospital (?:Cover with \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess)|\$750 Excess)|Hospital (?:with \$(?:1000 Excess(?: and Ambulance Levy)?|250 Excess(?: and Ambulance Levy)?|500 Excess(?: and Ambulance Levy)?)|\$750 Excess - Bronze Plus)))|Established Family Hospital Cover with \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess|750 Excess)|G(?:old Complete Hospital \$(?:500 Excess|750 Excess)|rowing Family Hospital Cover with \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess))|Prime Plus with (?:Nil Excess Hospital|\$(?:250 Excess Hospital|500 Excess Hospital))|Si(?:mple Start Hospital Cover|lver Plus (?:Advanced Hospital \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess|750 Excess)|Essential Hospital \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess)))|Top Hospital (?:with Pregnancy(?: (?:- Gold|\$(?:250 Excess(?: - Gold)?|500 Excess(?: - Gold)?|750 Excess(?: - Gold)?)))?|Cover no Pregnancy(?: with \$(?:250 Excess|500 Excess))?)))$

See this regex demo.

Regex expression for "equal any of"

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