regex to remove last two letters in a number and word string

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I'm trying to only match few ID's where there are either one or two alphabets at the end

Example:

ny12345d ---to be matched

ny12345dc -- to be matched

ny12346T01 --not to be matched

ny12346dfA --not to be matched

ny12345 ------not to be matched

so far I came up with this

/[^0-9]*$/g
regex-lookarounds regex
2 Answers

You can use

(?<![a-zA-Z])[a-zA-Z]{1,2}$

See the regex demo

Details:

  • (?<![a-zA-Z]) - a negative lookbehind that fails the match if there is an ASCII letter immediately to the left of the current location
  • [a-zA-Z]{1,2} - one or two ASCII letters at
  • $ - end of string.

A capturing group approach:

(?:[^a-zA-Z]|^)([a-zA-Z]{1,2})$

See this regex demo. Here, (?:[^a-zA-Z]|^) is a non-capturing group matching either a char other than an ASCII letter or start of string, and ([a-zA-Z]{1,2})$ is similar to the pattern described above, with the letters captures into Group 1.

NOTE: If you want to make sure there is a digit before the last one or two letters, you need

(?<=\d)[a-zA-Z]{1,2}$
(?<=[0-9])[a-zA-Z]{1,2}$
\d([a-zA-Z]{1,2})$
[0-9]([a-zA-Z]{1,2})$

Here, \d or [0-9] matches any digit and (?<=\d) is a positive lookbehind that requires a digit to appear immediately to the left of the current location.

user_38329700

Could you please try following. Online regex demo is: Online regex demo

[^a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z]{1,2}$

Explanation: Simply checking if at last of line anything apart from alphabets is there followed by 1 or 2 alphabets then match that string.

user_58665800
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