I am learning REGEX and I have the following string:

minchiase (se), minchiase se

My goal is to remove all the se and (se) from the string except the ones that are inside of a word. The final result should be:

minchiase , minchiase

So far I tried this \b(se) but I am only able to identify the last se but not the one between the parenthesis.

Would you be able to suggest a smart and elegant way to achieve this goal using the regular expression?

CodePudding user response：

You may use this regex:

\bse\b|\(se\)

RegEx Demo

RegEx Details:

• \b: Match word boundary
• se: Match se
• \b: Match word boundary
• |: OR
• \(: Match opening (
• se: Match se
• \): Match closing )