Match all words, up and until a certain character

Asked Aug 23 '23 at 13:47

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These two strings:

AMZN Mktp COM*TB125G03 WWW.AMAZON.COM
AMZ#zebra100 WWW.AMAZON.COM

should return up to the first three words like this from a regex:

AMZN Mktp COM
AMZ WWW.AMAZON.COM

so basically, truncate words upon encountering a certain token, in this case, "*" or "#", and then return up to 3 words.

I've gotten this far, which returns the correct number of words, but fails when the token is encountered

(([^#* ]+ ){1,3})

asked Aug 23 '23 at 13:47

eplictical

First question is: How do you define a "word"? – Andy Lester Aug 23 '23 at 13:49
You probably want to match any text from start till `*` or end of string: `^.*?(?=\*|$)` or even `^[^*]*` – Wiktor Stribiżew Aug 23 '23 at 13:49

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