Regex to match all groups between more than one space

Question

I've got a string

198.21 543 G110P0GHTT SAW GHA + DBA 11998

And I'd like to match all groups of the string between spaces. So far I've come up with (?<=\\s)(.*?)(?=\\s) which matches all but the first group. Additionally, this does not count the GHA + DBA as a group. What can I add to this to ensure it includes the first record as well as anything MORE than one space

Answer 1

You don't need to use look arounds here. Just use this regex to match a non-whitespace string or substring separated by a single space:

\S+(?:\s\S+)*

RegEx Demo

RegEx Details:

• \\S+ : Match 1+ non-space characters
• (?:\\s\\S+)* : Match 0 or more non-space substring separated by a single space.