Grab first 4 characters of two words RegEx

Question

I would like to grab the first 4 characters of two words using RegEx. I have some RegEx experinece however a search did not yeild any results.

So if I have Awesome Sauce I would like the end result to be AwesSauc

Answer 1

Use the Replace Text action with the following parameters:

Pattern: \W*\b(\p{L}{1,4})\w*\W*
Replacement text: $1

See the regex demo.

Pattern details:

• \W* - 0+ non-word chars (trim from the left)
• \b - a leading word boundary
• (\p{L}{1,4}) - Group 1 (later referred to via $1 backreference) matching any 1 to 4 letters (incl. Unicode ones)
• \w* - any 0+ word chars (to match the rest of the word)
• \W* - 0+ non-word chars (trim from the right)