By johnaweiss
I thought one of these would work, but none of them work. Starting with my favorite:
const gRecordDelim = /(\n[ \t]*){2,}(?=\w)/g;
// 2 or more ( newline + 0 or more (spaces or tabs) )
// + any alphanumeric
//const gRecordDelim = /(\n[ \t]*\n)/g;
// const gRecordDelim = /(\n[ \t]*){2,}(?=[A-Za-z0-9])/g;
// const gRecordDelim = /(\n[ \t]*){2,}\n/g;
// const gRecordDelim = /\n{2,}/g;
// const gRecordDelim = /([ \t]*\n[ \t]*){2,}/g;
It’s a split pattern in javascript:
const recs = text.split(gRecordDelim);
recs.forEach((rec) => console.log("RECORD: " + rec))
Here’s my data.
const text = `
Orblie Rapitulnik
orbliek.jpg
orbliek.com
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable.
Qang Le Toenthal
Qang.jpg
Qangle.io
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text.`
I’m getting the split at “Qang” as expected, but also splitting at the empty line, which i don’t want.
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Hi there,
I’ve just tested this out and the following seems to match what you are after:
const text = `
Orblie Rapitulnik
orbliek.jpg
orbliek.com
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable.
Qang Le Toenthal
Qang.jpg
Qangle.io
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text.`
const gRecordDelim = /\n\s*\n/g;
const recs = text.split(gRecordDelim);
recs.forEach((rec) => console.log("RECORD: " + rec))
Output:
RECORD: Orblie Rapitulnik ...
RECORD: Qang Le Toenthal ...
Rundown of the regex:
\n: Matches a line feed char\s: Matches whitespace characters*: Match anything in between
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby
Answer that works
/(?:\n[ \t]*){2,}(?=\w)/g;
After records are found, then fields can be split with:
const gFldDelim = /(?:\n[ \t]*)(?=\w)/g;
You didn’t say what you want the result to be only what you didn’t want. :-)
I highly recommend the web site: https://regex101.com/ and https://regex101.com/quiz
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