I would like to run a regex search to find two words no more the six words apart

[BrandSentiment]

Is this string anywhere near where I need to be to find word1 and word2 no more than 6 words apart in the field interaction.content:

interaction.content word1\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,6}?word2

Any help much appreciated

[thebarryk]

The following regex may be more than you need, but has a few extra facets:

1. Matches the two words in either order.
2. Matches the words when they are adjacent.

3. Uses word boundary anchors for matches at the beginning or end of the field.

   index="main" interaction.type=twitter | regex interaction.content="(?:\bword1\b\W(?:\w+\W+){0,6}?\bword2\b|\bword2\b\W(?:\w+\W+){0,6}?\bword1\b)"
   Hope it's useful.

Barry

[BrandSentiment · Accepted solution]

Hi Martin, Thanks for offering your help. By researching and playing with http://www.regexr.com/ I have found my answer and by working more with Regexr tool I have found answers to a lot more questions.

This is my solution:

index="main" interaction.type=twitter | regex interaction.content="((word1)\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,8}?(word2)W)" 

[BrandSentiment]

Correction - for some reason the backslash did't show above:

index="barclays" interaction.type=twitter | regex interaction.content="((word1)\W+(?:\w+\W+){1,8}?(word2)\W)"

[martin_mueller]

How is "word" defined in your context?

Got Sample data?

What's not working in your own solution?