I would like to match all words but not in quotas or escaped quotas and no some words.
My current regex
b(?![[^"]*"[^"]*"]|AND|OR|NOTb)w+/gm
Example phrase:
Visualise AND Visionary OR "Experiences Tester" OR (project AND manager)
My expected result is get following matches.
Visualise, Visionary, project, manager
But right now i receive Visualise, Visionary, Experiences Teste, project, manager
How to right a correct regex?
Thank you.
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For the exact task described in the question, you can use
(?:b(?:AND|OR|NOT)b|"[^"\]*(?:\.[^"\]*)*")(*SKIP)(*F)|w+
See the regex demo.
Details:
(?:b(?:AND|OR|NOT)b|"[^"\]*(?:\.[^"\]*)*")(*SKIP)(*F)– match and skip:b(?:AND|OR|NOT)b– aAND,OR,NOTas whole words"[^"\]*(?:\.[^"\]*)*"– any string inside double quotes that can possibly contain an escaped double quote|– orw+– match one or more word chars.
Remember that backslashes must be double escaped inside PHP single/double quoted string literals, see the regex101 code snippet.
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