Tim Titus

Web Developer, specialising in WordPress

Terry Woods

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I need to create a RegEx expression that will attempt to match any of the following three phrases:<br>"cookies" or "chocolate cake" or "jelly doughnuts"<br><br>Thus, if I enter "sugar cookies at my house" would match.<br>"I ate a chocolate cake slice" would match.<br>"I bought some jelly doughnuts from the bakery" would match.<br><br>It should be case-sensitive so it would NOT match "Cookies".
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I need to create a RegEx expression that will attempt to match any of the following three phrases:
"cookies" or "chocolate cake" or "jelly doughnuts"
Thus, if I enter "sugar cookies at my house" would match.
"I ate a chocolate cake slice" would match.
"I bought some jelly doughnuts from the bakery" would match.
It should be case-sensitive so it would NOT match "Cookies".

Help creating a RegEx expression to match three possible phrases

A regular expression ("regex") is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations. Regular expression processors are found in several search engines, search and replace dialogs of several word processors and text editors, and in the command lines of text processing utilities, such as sed and AWK. Many programming languages provide regular expression capabilities, some built-in, for example Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl, and others via a standard library, for example .NET languages, Java, Python and C++ (since C++11). Most other languages offer regular expressions via a library.