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I have a below set of string :

*H. NGUYEN1, J. SATZ2,3,4,5, R. TURK2,3,4,5, K. CAMPBELL2,3,4,5, S. MOORE1
1Pathology, 2Mol. Physiol. and Biophysics, 3Neurol., 4Intrnl. Med., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 5Howard Hughes Med. Inst., Iowa City, IA

The expected output is :

1)  *H. NGUYEN1, J. SATZ2,3,4,5, R. TURK2,3,4,5, K. CAMPBELL2,3,4,5, S. MOORE1
2)  1Pathology, 2Mol. Physiol. and Biophysics, 3Neurol., 4Intrnl. Med., Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; 5Howard Hughes Med. Inst., Iowa City, IA

The above string is the author names and address combinations.
Sometimes the string contains (;) after the names end i.e. S. MOORE1; and sometimes not i.e. S. MOORE1

I tried the below Regex but its not giving expected results . Please help me as I am a learner of Regex.

;?[\d*]\w+

Pattern is :

Word followed by digit followed by semicolon or space followed by digit followed by words . For Ex: S. MOORE1(; Or Space)1Pathology.Need to split lines as S .MOORE1 and 1Pathology

Thanks

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  • What are the rules? It looks like you only want to number lines.. Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 17:36
  • You need to describe the pattern a little better if you want a useful answer. Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 17:37
  • The pattern is Name followd by digit followd by semicolon or space followed by digit followed by words . For Ex: S. MOORE1(; Or Space)1Pathology.Need to split lines as S .MOORE1 and 1Pathology. Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 17:40
  • -1, sorry: I find this question very unclear. I don't understand what your input "set of string" is, I don't understand what your expected output is, and I don't understand what connection your described pattern has with the input and expected output. Judging from the other comments, I'm not alone. Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 17:53

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Try this one:

(?<=\w\d)[; ](?=\d\w)

It will match ; or space preceded by a letter then a digit, then followed by a digit and a letter.

Edit: taking into account , and ;space and possible new line characters

(?<=[\w,]\d)[; ]+[\r\n\f]*(?=\d\w)

Also you can use Expresso for testing regular expressions

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Its not splitting in Expresso.
If we have new line char after space or (;) i.e. S. MOORE1 \r\n1Pathology,
Yeah its working , but again not working for this case : M. SASSOÈ-POGNETTO1; \r\n1Dept Anatomy
And with this also : MCCARTHY4,2,5 \r\n1Pharmacol.,
You should specify these cases in your question. You're adding , as a valid char and saying ; AND space: (?<=[\w,]\d)[; ]+\r?\n?(?=\d\w)
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Try this one: 

(.*)S. MOORE1;{0,1}(.*)

Catches 2 Groups before and after "S. MOORE1"

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Thanks for the answer but S. MOORE1 is not there in every name-address combination.
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I have read your description many times, but I don't find it clear.

My best guess what you need is breaking the line before a word starting with '1' and continuing with capital letter as second character, which is as simple as:

1[A-Z]
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More specifically split the string on pattern "digits followed by space or semicolon followed by digit" . Could you help me now?

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