PHP正则表达式匹配多个部分

Question

I am new to regex and I know the basics of how to pull out one sub string from a given string but I am struggling to get out multiple parts that I need. I am wondering if someone could help me with this simple example and then I work my way from there. Take this string:

LMJ won Neu . Zone - KEN # 55 LEIGH vs LMJ # 63 ONEIL

The parts in italics are the parts of the string that will change and bold will stay the same in every string. The parts I need out are:

1. First team id which in this case is LMJ , this will always start the string and be 3 uppercase letters, ^[AZ]{3} ?

2. The Neu part which could be one of 3 strings, Neu , Off , Def , [Neu|Off|Def] ?

3. The second team part which will come always after the word Zone - , [AZ]{3} ?

4. Need the numeric part of the string after the first # . This could be 1 or 2 digits [0-9]{1,2} ?

5.Third team part same as 3 except will appear after vs , [AZ]{3} ?

6. Same as 4 need numeric part after 2nd # , [0-9]{1,2} ?

I would like to put that all together into one regex is that possible?

Answer 1

Everything inside square brackets is a so-called character class: it matches only a single character. so, [Neu|Off|Def] means: exactly one of the characters N , e , u , | , O , f or D (repetitions are ignored)

What you want is a capture group: (Neu|Off|Def)

Putting it together:

^([A-Z]{3}) won (Neu|Off|Def)\. Zone - ([A-Z]{3}) #([0-9]{1,2}) [A-Z]+ vs ([A-Z]{3}) #([0-9]{1,2}) [A-Z]+$

(This assumes you're not interested in the "LEIGH" and "ONEIL" parts, and these are always in upper case letters)

Answer 2

The regex should be something like;

'/([A-Z]{3})\ won\ (Neu|Off|Def)\.\ Zone\ -\ ([A-Z]{3})\ (\#[0-9]{1,2}\ \w+)\ vs\ ([A-Z]{3})\ (\#[0-9]{1,2}\ \w+)/' 

() are used for capturing the different parts.

This is not tested properly.