正则表达式在两个选定的单词之间捕获多个单词 python

Question

I new fairly new to regex and can't understand what I am doing wrong.

I have different tweets about women and am trying to capture sentences that contain words.

An example of a piece of text: all women should be earning less within the workplace if you ask me

and I a trying to capture women should be earning less within the workplace and have tried several regex patterns including:

women(\w+\W+\s*\S*)workplace
women(\w+\W+\s*\S*){2,}workplace
\bwomen(\w+\W+\s*\S*){2,}workplace\b

From my understanding this code should capture unlimited number of word characters, spaces or non-whitespace characters at least twice or more. I also used the boundary anchor to see if that would work but it didn't.

However I receive no matches for this at all. Could someone explain what I am doing wrong please.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you are trying to capture everything between two keywords, try something like:

\bwomen\b.*\bworkplace\b

To capture the entire sentence that contains the two keywords, use something like:

\b[^.??]*.\bwomen\b?*.\bworkplace\b[^??!]*\b

This assumes that sentences are separated with . , ? , or ! . It will also incorrectly identify punctuation in abbreviations like Ms. as sentence boundaries.