Regex capture part of text or all text depending on conditions-CodePudding

Hi guys I am working on some regex to extract the FirstName and first letter of LastName from an account field, only if the account is a human account. Otherwise, if it is a service account I want to capture the full text in the same capturing group where I'd capture the FirstName.

Sounds simple enough but I am working with a naming convention that is not as well defined as I'd like which makes things hard. Here is the regex I have put together so far.

^((-?)(admin|top)-|ADMIN: )?(?<FirstName>[^\n] ?)(?(?= \w* ) (?<MiddleName>\w*)|(?= ?))(?(?= ) (?<LastName>[A-Z])|$)

Below are some examples of account names. I've highlighted with bold the parts that need to be captured by the regex.

-admin-JohnS (here I want to grab JohnS in the FirstName capturing group)
admin-JohnS
ADMIN: John Smith (here the S needs to be captured by the LastName capturing group)
-top-JohnS
top-JohnS
John Smith
John Peter Smith
-service-something
service-something
-svc-something
svc-something
svc.something
SERVICE: Something
someServiceAccount

The regex works great for almost all the occasions except for "SERVICE: Something" where "SERVICE:" is captured by the FirstName group and "S" is captured by the LastName capturing group. What can I do to fix this and capture all the text? I have tried a few things with negative lookaheads but didn't get me anywhere.

Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

You might use:

^(?:-?(?i:admin(?:: |-)|top-))?(?<FirstName>[^\s:] (?:: .*)?)(?: (?<MiddleName>\w (?= \w)))?(?: (?<LastName>[A-Z]))?

Explanation

^ Start of string
(?: Non capture group
- -?(?i:admin(?:: |-)|top-) Match optional - and either admin: or admin- or top- case insensitive
)? Close the non capture group and make it optional
(?<FirstName>[^\s:] (?:: .*)?) Match the first name consisting of any non whitespace char except : and then optionally match : and the rest of the line
(?: (?<MiddleName>\w (?= \w)))? Match only the middle name if there is a following part with a space and a word char
(?: (?<LastName>[A-Z]))? Optionally match a space and the first char of the last name

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