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Regular Expression To Extract Names

I have strings in this form: 

"""00.000000 00.000000; X-XX000-0000-0; France; Paris; Street 12a;   
00.000000 00.000000; X-XX000-0000-0; Spain; Barcelona; Street 123;"""

I want to get specific data towns above string. How do I get this data??

Solution

  • If you just want to get the city for your given example, you could use a positive lookahead:

    \b[^;]+(?=;[^;]+;$)

    Explanation

    \b        # Word boundary
[^;]+     # Match NOT ; one or more times
(?=       # Positive lookahead that asserts what follows is
   ;      # Match semicolon
   [^;]+  # Match NOT ; one or more times  
   ;      # Match ;
   $      # Match end of the string
)         # Close lookahead