I need to detect words as 'bot/hersen/levermetastase' and transform them into 'botmetastase, hersenmetastase, levermetastase'. But also 'lever/botmetastase' into 'levermetastase, botmetastase'.
So I need to be sure the "word/word/word metastase" is as variabele as possible in numbers.
This is my solution but it doesn't work.
FILTERIN:
\b(\w)\s*[\/]\s*(\w)\s*(metastase)\b
FILTEROUT:
$1metastase, $2metastase, $3metastase
You may use
/?(\w+)(?=(?:/\w+)+metastase\b)/?
Replace with $1metastase (with space at the end).
If there can be spaces around the slashes, use
/?\s*(\w+)(?=(?:\s*/\s*\w+)+metastase\b)(?:\s*/)?
/?\h*(\w+)(?=(?:\h*/\h*\w+)+metastase\b)(?:\h*/)?
where \h matches a horizontal only whitespace char, and \s will match any whitespace char.
See the regex demo #1 and regex demo #2.
Details
/? - an optional / char(\w+) - Group 1: one or more word chars(?=(?:/\w+)+metastase\b) - that must be followed with
(?:/\w+)+ - one or more occurrences of / and then 1+ word charsmetastase\b - and metastase whole word (\b is a word boundary)/? - an optional / char.