Regex for this string

Question

The buffer string char *bufferString points to the first element of the following string:

BER Berman, Jane 06/29/91 Photography;Dance;Music\n

I'd like to parse each item of the topics last list of topics only and store them

What I've tried:

#define REGEX_TOPIC "^[a-zA-Z].*^[0-9/0-90-9/0-90-9+]"
char *topic;
topic = strstr(bufferString, REGEX_TOPIC);

Could you help me here?

I'd start by using a regex evaluator rather than strstr to evaluate the expression against the the input data. — WhozCraig
– WhozCraig, Commented Feb 28, 2013 at 4:09
^[a-zA-Z].*^[0-9/0-90-9/0-90-9+] Doesn't look well-formed. Which part(s) of ^[a-zA-Z].*^[0-9/0-90-9/0-90-9+] are you trying to match? — johnsyweb
– johnsyweb, Commented Feb 28, 2013 at 4:16

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 11:53:25Z

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The strstr() function locates the first occurrence of the null-terminated string s2 in the null-terminated string s1. It does not handle regular expressions.

For using regular expressions in C, see the answers to Regular expressions in C: examples?.

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