Regex match a dynamic pattern

Question

Hey guys i got stuck with this problem:

I have this pattern:

(group1); (group2); (group3); ... Actually i don't know how many groups the rows can have and i need to match all groups between \s;\s .

I was thinking about a negative of pattern ^(?;\s;\s) but it didn't work

Answer 1

I would suggest doing a string split in this case, which also handles nicely the problem of not knowing how many groups you have, eg

 var input = "group 1; group 2; group 3"; var groups = input.split(/\s*;\s*/); console.log(groups);

Answer 2

Try this example

([^\s;]{3,})  // made use of negation approch