I got the following query string that contains a couple tagged values (key: value pairs) always at the end of a string:
Lorem ipsum age:85 date:15.05.2015 sender: user: John Doe
The "Lorem ipsum" is a string that should be ignored as it's not a pair. The following pairs are valid:
age with 85date with 15.05.2015user with John DoeA tag should be ignored if no contents can be found after the colon. Their content can also include spaces up to the next tag's key.
Here's what I got so far:
/([\w-]+):\s*(.+?)(?!\s+[\w-]+:)?/g
but for some reason it only seems to match the first character of the value and also cut into the "user" tag (regexr playground):
age:8
date:1
sender: u
ser:J
Any help would be much appreciated!
You may use
(\w[\w-]*):(?!\s+\w[\w-]*:|\s*$)\s*(.*?)(?=\s+\w[\w-]*:|$)
See the regex demo
Details
(\w[\w-]*) - Capturing group 1: a word char followed with 0+ word or hyphen chars: - a colon(?!\s+\w[\w-]*:|\s*$) - the negative lookahead fails the match if, immediately to the right of the current location, there is 1+ whitespaces, a word char followed with 0+ word or hyphen chars and then : or 0+ whitespaces at the end of the string\s* - 0+ whitespaces(.*?) - Group 2: any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as few as possible, up to the closest...(?=\s+\w[\w-]*:|$) - 1+ whitespaces, a word char followed with 0+ word or hyphen chars and then : or just the end of the string.