Regex to match string which has words followed by whitespace then digits dot or hyphen and words followed by space and then (some info)

Question

I have a string which has the following format: name category (more info)

eg: Foo Bar-8.io 5.61.0-rc-1 (data)

I need a regex which basically filters out strings conforming to the above format.

name can be alpha numeric with spaces, - and .

category can start with digit followed by word including dot or hyphen

data can be anything .* enclosed in ()

I have tried this: ^[\w\s]+.*\s.*\(.*\)$ but doesnot seems to cover the above pattern.

Answer 1

Use

^(.*)\s+(\S+)\s+\((.*)\)$

See regex proof .

EXPLANATION

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  ^                        the beginning of the string
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  (                        group and capture to \1:
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    .*                       any character except \n (0 or more times
                             (matching the most amount possible))
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  )                        end of \1
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  \s+                      whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (1 or
                           more times (matching the most amount
                           possible))
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  (                        group and capture to \2:
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    \S+                      non-whitespace (all but \n, \r, \t, \f,
                             and " ") (1 or more times (matching the
                             most amount possible))
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  )                        end of \2
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  \s+                      whitespace (\n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (1 or
                           more times (matching the most amount
                           possible))
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  \(                       '('
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  (                        group and capture to \3:
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    .*                       any character except \n (0 or more times
                             (matching the most amount possible))
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  )                        end of \3
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  \)                       ')'
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  $                        before an optional \n, and the end of the
                           string