Using Regex to extract table names from a file containing SQL queries

Question

I\'ve a text file containing large number of queries. I want to get all the distinct tables used in the entire file in all the queries. The table name can come after a \'fro

Answer 1

It depends on structure of your file. Try to use this:

(?<=from|join)(\s+\w+\b)

Also turn on options Multiline if your not split your file in array or smth else with singleline string members. Also try to turn on IgnorCase option.