Regular expression to match the input string

Question

Regular expression to match the input string is "Chart for - FName MName LName(ID)" where FName, MName, LName and ID are alphanumric and can change at run time. for example it can be

chart for -Anshul Srivastava (10GF12)

chart for - Vidya sagar gupta(101)

chart for - Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam(1097F)

I am new to Regex and try to build as

/Chart for -/-\s[a-zA-Z0-9]+\s/\(([^)]+)\)$/

but it is not working.

Answer 1

There is no need to use any complex regex only to validate.

chart for -[\w\s]+\(\w*?\)$

In your regex you have capital C (in Chart) this could be a problem.

Answer 2

try this,

/chart for -[a-z0-9 ()]+/i

your can use this link to test your regular expression with examples.

Answer 3

There are great sites that help you to validate your regexp for example http://regexpal.com/

If the example text you posted is really that unstructured this regexp will do it:

chart for -[A-Za-z ]*\([0-9A-Za-z]*\)

If it's a bit more structured, like always a space after the first - and before the ( ) then you also could make the regexp a bit more precise.