✅ – dmikester1 – 15-27 Mar 21

Is this a good room to ask a regex(in Javascript) question?

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OK, so all I'm trying to figure out is how to match a single colon [:] or a space followed by a hyphen [ -] ? If it was just a colon or hyphen, i know I could do [:-].

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dmikester1OP•2y ago

sorry I mean a (colon) or (a space followed by a hyphen) does that make sense?

dmikester1OP•2y ago

https://regex101.com/r/MvOBYB/1

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dmikester1OP•2y ago

I am close there I don't want the last part in a seperate group i want it part of the match

ScriptyChris•2y ago

Like this?

^[\s]?slide [\d]{1,2}(?:\:|\s-)

^[\s]?slide [\d]{1,2}(?:\:|\s-)

dmikester1OP•2y ago

Yes, that works perfect! Thank you!

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