Im trying to do something fairly simple with regular expression in python... thats what i thought at least.
What i want to do is matching words from a string if its preceded and followed by a whitespace. If its at the beginning of the string there is no whitespace required before - if its at the end, dont't search for whitespace either.
Example:
"WordA WordB WordC-WordD WordE"
I want to match WordA WordB WordE.
I only came up with overcomplicated way of doing this...
(?<=(?<=^)|(?<=\s))\w+(?=(?=\s)|(?=$))
It seems to me there has to be a simple way for such a simple problem....
I figured i can just start with (?<=\s|^) but that doesnt seem possible because "look-behind requires fixed-width pattern".