Pattern is not splitting as desired, fails to split by +

Question

I have the following code :

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(\"\\\\d+(?:\\\\.\\\\d+)?(\\\\s\\\\d+(?:\\\\.\\\\d+)?)*\\\\s*[-\\\\+\\\\*/\\\\$£]\");

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Answer 1

Maybe I am missing something, but from what you describe, I don't see why it needs to be so complicated. "[\\d. ]+?[-+/*£$]" seems to do exactly what you want.

Answer 2

You can use this regex:

((?:\d+(?:\.\d+)?(?:\s+\d+(?:\.\d+)?)*)?\s*[-+*/$£])

RegEx Demo

In Java it would be:

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile
  ( "((?:\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)?(?:\\s+\\d+(?:\\.\\d+)?)*)?\\s*[-+*/$£])" );