Thread: Regex term for batch identifying word count in comments
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Old 01-31-2022, 03:42 AM   #3
davidfor
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Slightly better would be:

Code:
(\d{0,3}[,]?\d{1,3} [Ww]ords)
That should get any number up to 6 digits with or without the comma. But, it would miss the first digit in 1000000.

If I hadn't see your solution, I think I would have suggested:

Code:
([\d,]+ [Ww]ords)
Which would pickup ", words". So, slightly safer is:

Code:
([\d,]{2,} [Ww]ords\b)
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