Hi

I am trying to replace text of a string with empty string.

Travel - Travel - Information
Animal - Cheetah/Tiger
Getaway - Getaway - Camping

This is my regex (\w+\s-\s\w+)$ which works fine for a single line, but for multi line this doesn't seem to be working fine

What regex should do is replace the text in this manner

 Travel - Travel - Information changes to Travel - Information

Animal - Cheetah/Tiger remains as it is

Getaway - Getaway - Camping changes to  Getaway - Camping

 

Here I have tried traversing text backwards, how is it possible to do the same thing from the beginning of the string?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Ved

 

 

 

You didn't say what programming language or tool you were using so I can't help you with the implementation.

The following works with the sample you provided.

Raw Match Pattern:
^(\w+\x20-)\x20\1

Raw Replace Pattern:
$1

$sourcestring after replacement:
Travel - Information
Animal - Cheetah/Tiger
Getaway - Camping

 

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Michael

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
Albert Einstein

Thanks mash, sorry didn't mention that earlier. I'm using PHP

PHP Code Example: 
<?php
$sourcestring="your source string";
echo preg_replace('/^(\w+\x20-)\x20\1/m','$1',$sourcestring);
?>
 


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Michael

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
Albert Einstein

The pattern that you wrote doesn't show the results as desired, please refer back to my query again.

Here is the result of the pattern that you wrote http://www.myregextester.com/?r=db2ca849

Thanks.

nirvana74v:

The pattern that you wrote doesn't show the results as desired, please refer back to my query again.

Here is the result of the pattern that you wrote http://www.myregextester.com/?r=db2ca849

Thanks.

No, it works fine. You failed to implement it correctly. If you refer back to my original response you'll not that you failed to use the replace pattern.

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Michael

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."
Albert Einstein

Thanks Mash for pointing that out, indeed I missed that replacement value.