使用正则表达式匹配地址与目标部分不匹配

Question

I'm not quite good in regex.

With my input string LT 1 BLK 4 LAKES OF PARKWAY 5 R/P & AMEND

I'd like to match just the only part between the figure 4 and 5 in the string.

meaning that, my expected result is LAKES OF PARKWAY .

I've tried to come up with a pattern to get such result.

 \d+\s+([A-z ]+)(\d+.*?)*$

but with my pattern, it only matches BLK and 5 R/P & AMEND , as group #1 and group #2 respectively. At the end of my thought pattern, I decide to use end of string matching, $ . So, when 5 R/P & AMEND got matched, the pointer should move further behind to the sub sequence part. Then, ([Az ]+) should match LAKES OF PARKWAY .

What's wrong with my pattern? and how to get it to work?

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Try \\d+\\s+(\\D+)\\d+\\D*$

\\D means 'anything that is not \\d , so it won't be allowed to match, for example, between the first 1 and 4, because then the ending of the regex would be rejected at the later 5 .