How do you write a regular expression to extract a field which has characters, numbers and also special characters?

[Deepz2612]

How do you write a regular expression to extract a field which has characters, numbers and also special characters? There are sometimes spaces in between.

I tried this. rex "(?\w+[A-Z0-9][^-])" --- to include characters and hyphen,
but it doesnt work

Thanks in advance!!

[kushagra9120]

this works for me :-

[\w\D]*

It would be better if you give the input data as well

[vinod94]

hi @Deepz2612 ,

you can try this,

| rex "(?P<field_name>[a-zA-Z0-9\s].*)"

[MoniM]

Hi @Deepz2612 ,

I tried this:-
([\w\D]+) for extracting "tirx-Ten @140gmail.com"

Thanks

[FrankVl]

\w includes digits, \D is non-digits. So combining those two means you match basically anything.

[FrankVl]

It would help if you would post some sample data and requirements on what you need to extract.

Regarding the regex you have: put it in on regex101.com and see the explanation of what it does, maybe that helps you spot the flaw.

Also: when posting code like that, please put it in between backticks: ` or use the 101010 button in the message editor toolbar to post it as a code snippet, so special characters don't disappear.

[vnravikumar · Accepted solution]

Hi @Deepz2612

Try this, I included space and hyphen

([A-Za-z0-9*,\s-])