That looks like
foo(\+.*?)?#
(Using .*? instead of .* ensures that if you have a line like "foo+bar#
foo+mung#", it will match two occurrences, "foo+bar#" and "foo+mung#", rather
than a single occurrence with foo followed by the string "bar# foo+mung"
followed by #.
Regards,
Neil Faiman
> On Feb 12, 2021, at 7:07 AM, @lbutlr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I seem to be having a Brain Cloud¹ moment, but I am trying to match a pattern
> like this:
>
> foo+(anything)# or foo# and NOT match
>
> foobar#
> foobar+(anything)#
> foob#
> foob+(anything)#
> etc
>
> foo+# is invalid and cannot occur in my dataset.
>
> Basically, the + is optional, but if it is there, I have to account for
> anything after the + up to the # but not account for anything after foo
> unless the + is there.
>
> I started with foo\+?.*# but that obviously failed and now I'm looking at it
> and it's 0500 and I should've been in bed 7 hours ago.
>
> And yes, I am going to feel real stupid.
>
> 1. 🌋
>
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