I am trying to match a particular set of strings with a regex
1- #1 – .75 Gallon $16.99
2- #2 –1.6 Gallon $36.99
This is what I tried to figure out with many attempts but still it doesn’t seems to work
console.log(/^#\d\s+–\s+[0-9]*\.[0-9]+\s+[a-zA-Z]+\s+:[0-9]*\.[0-9]+$/.test('#2 – 1.6 Gallon $36.99'))
console.log(/^#\d\s+–\s+[0-9]*\.[0-9]+\s+[a-zA-Z]+\s+:[0-9]*\.[0-9]+$/.test('#1 – .75 Gallon $16.99'))I have gone through each part individually but I don’t know where I am making mistake ,any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
>Solution :
You should allow any (even zero) amount of whitespaces around the hyphen, and you need to match a dollar symbol instead of a colon:
^#\d\s*–\s*\d*\.?\d+\s+[a-zA-Z]+\s+\$\d*\.?\d+$
See the regex demo.
I also added a ? quantifier after \. to match integers.
Details:
^– start of string#– a#char\d– a digit\s*–\s*– a hyphen wrapped with zero or more whitespaces\d*\.?\d+– an integer or float like value: zero or more digits, an optional.and then one or more digits\s+– one or more whitespaces[a-zA-Z]+– one or more letters\s+– one or more whitespaces\$– a$char\d*\.?\d+– an integer or float like value$– end of string.