I have here a phrase AAC Barcode Description that regex should match.

The problem is sometimes I have underscore, symbols etc... like

• AAC Barcode Descriptions
• AAC Barcode Description
• AAC Barcode & Descriptions
• AAC Barcode and Description

REGEX

\b\w*AAC Barcode Description\w*\b

CodePudding user response：

You can use

\w*AAC Barcode(?:\s and\s |\W )Description\w*

See the regex demo. Note that word boundaries are redundant in this case when used with \w*s. If you want to match this string is a whole word, you need to remove \w*s and keep \bs:

\bAAC Barcode(?:\s and\s |\W )Description\b

Details:

• \w* - zero or more word chars
• AAC Barcode - a fixed string
• (?:\s and\s |\W ) - a non-capturing group matching either and enclosed with one or more whitespaces or one or more non-word chars
• Description - a fixed string
• \w* - zero or more word chars