Lets say I have:
[Radius: 4000 mi.] -- 61362 -- Spring Valley, IL, US
The aim is to get:
Spring Valley, IL
I want to achieve this with RegEx. When I try (?<=--)(.*?)(?=\, US) I can't seem to get the second group of '--' out.
2 Answers
If you're open to considering a non-regex approach, you can split the string on the hyphens and spaces (' -- '), take the element at index 2 (the city, state, country), split that by the comma limiting the results to 2, and then rejoining by a comma, and you have what you're looking for.
Easier to read than a regex approach, and likely easier for other developers in your code base to understand what is happening.
const s = '[Radius: 4000 mi.] -- 61362 -- Spring Valley, IL, US';
const cityState = s.split(' -- ')[2]?.split(',', 2).join(',');
console.log(cityState);
Comments
You can use the lookbehind, but in between you should not match -- again
(?<= -- )(?:(?! --).)*(?=, US)
const s = `[Radius: 4000 mi.] -- 61362 -- Spring Valley, IL, US`;
const regex = /(?<= -- )(?:(?! --).)*(?=, US)/;
const m = s.match(regex);
if (m) console.log(m[0]);You can also use a capture group and make the match as specific as you want:
--\s+\d+\s+--\s+(.*?), US\b
const s = `[Radius: 4000 mi.] -- 61362 -- Spring Valley, IL, US`;
const regex = /--\s+\d+\s+--\s+(.*?), US\b/;
const m = s.match(regex);
if (m) console.log(m[1]);
(str.match(/.*--\s*(.*?),\s*US/) || ['', ''])[1]