Special Regex/ Extraction of All Capitalized words which also has special characters like "-" , "/", "\" etc

Question

I am new to regex I want to capture multiple capital words. Sometime capital words can have special characters between them.

example 1:

string = string = 'MY MANAGEMENT PRIOR ASSESSMENT / NEW PLANNING SUPRESS RATE  - TEAM : 14

I want the regex to capture all capital words and the special characters that seperate them

"MY MANAGEMENT PRIOR ASSESSMENT / NEW PLANNING SUPRESS RATE  - TEAM"

example 2:

string2 = 'SPORT/TRACK INFO  ¶·»Sport Coverage(s): All Sport  primary ¶·»WWE Hi-Low:  ¶·»BBC Hi-Low: ¶·»Sports Issues: can run forever ¶·»BBC Sports: kjkj '

I want the regex to capture "SPORT/TRACK INFO", "WWE", "BBC"

This post should probably help for what you are looking for : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4598315/regex-to-match-only-uppercase-words-with-some-exceptions. — uday8486, Dec 01 '19 at 18:14
about the second example. solution is `[A-Z]+\b` or `(?! )\b[A-Z\/ ]+\b(?!\w)` — αԋɱҽԃ αмєяιcαη, Dec 01 '19 at 18:16
What have you tried? What didn't work? What did you get? What did you expect? What doesn't work with your code and where is it? — Toto, Dec 01 '19 at 18:21
This returns: ['SPORT', 'TRACK', 'INFO', 'S', 'C', 'A', 'S', 'WWE', 'H', 'L', 'BBC', 'H', 'L', 'S', 'I', 'BBC', 'S'] — ryan b, Dec 01 '19 at 18:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-01T19:51:21.203

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Given the capital words need to be separate from lower case letters
and can have space, -, /, \ between the words, would be this :

[A-Z](?<![a-zA-Z][A-Z])(?:[A-Z]|[-\s/\\])*(?<=[A-Z])(?![a-zA-Z])

https://regex101.com/r/28FR7s/1

Python findall() example code

>>> import re
>>>
>>> string1 = 'MY MANAGEMENT PRIOR ASSESSMENT / NEW PLANNING SUPRESS RATE - TEAM : 14'
>>> string2 = 'SPORT/TRACK INFO ¶·»Sport Coverage(s): All Sport primary ¶·»WWE Hi-Low: ¶·»BBC Hi-Low: ¶·»Sports Issues: can run forever ¶·»BBC Sports: kjkj '
>>>
>>> Rx = r"[A-Z](?<![a-zA-Z][A-Z])(?:[A-Z]|[-\s/\\])*(?<=[A-Z])(?![a-zA-Z])"
>>>
>>> re.findall( Rx, string1 )
['MY MANAGEMENT PRIOR ASSESSMENT / NEW PLANNING SUPRESS RATE - TEAM']
>>> re.findall( Rx, string2 )
['SPORT/TRACK INFO', 'WWE', 'BBC', 'BBC']

edited Dec 01 '19 at 19:51

answered Dec 01 '19 at 18:24

I've deleted mine and voted for yours. – αԋɱҽԃ αмєяιcαη Dec 01 '19 at 18:28
Thank you this works. Do you have a solution in find All in Python. – ryan b Dec 01 '19 at 18:38
@ryanb - Added a Python sample solution. – Dec 01 '19 at 19:52

Special Regex/ Extraction of All Capitalized words which also has special characters like "-" , "/", "\" etc

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