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[hvshah69]

This may be pretty obvious to some of you gurus but my regex knowledge is pretty basic.

I just want to create an expression where if I am searching for a keyword the regex function will return the keyword+adjacent-word-on-right.

In other words,

if my subject is "quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog". If my keyword is "fox", I want the regex function to return "fox jumps".

I have no knowledge of what the next word is going to be or the length of the word for that matter. What will be the regex expression for this?

Thanks in advance.

[perkiset]

This little diddy will not work if fox is followed by a comma, period or anything other than whitespace and then the next word.

I assume PHP, so I'll write this with that function:

preg_match_all('/fox\s([A-Z]{1,32})/i', $inputStr, $parts);

$parts will then contain an array that has the word next to fox. That regex reads, "find the word fox with some white space after it. Provided it is found, and there is a string of characters containing A-Z of length 1..32 chars, collect that. The preg_match_all rolls through the inputStr to get all occurrences rather than just the first, like preg_match.

There are a whole lot of ways that you might make that more effective, not the least of which is optional punctuation.

Google Jan Goyvaerts regex for the best resource I've found on the web. Buy the book. It'll set you right, straight away (Amazon and others have it as well).

Or just go here: http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html

[hvshah69]

Many Thanks, Perkiset.

[perkiset]

No worries mate.