CPanel and Regex

Hello all, first post so please be gentle

(also not a programmer so just trying to find my way in the regex syntax - looked at various sites but can't crack the problem as yet) ...


I have an account filter that I am trying to set up that will catch a four letter string ... unfortunately the letters can be spaced in various ways:

A B C D
AB C D
A-B_C D

etc etc

I have been using A[ -_]B[ -_]C[ -_]D which catches everything except where two characters are together (like second example above).

Is there an easy way to include "no-space" as a character so that the second example above would also be caught?


Thanks in advance (and sorry if this is really simple!)

 

Thanks Dave, I will give it a go!

 

Just a quickie Dave,

I have given this a go and the first example works great but the second doesnt seem to capture anything:

If I use (say) M[ -_]?O[ -_]?N[ -_]?K it captures all sorts of MONK, M-on k, m o-n-k which is great however, as you noted, it also catches "monkey" etc

When I tried the second example ^M[ -_]?O[ -_]?N[ -_]?K$ it doesnt seem to catch anything.

Am I missing something in how I am using the second example ... should this catch where there is a space at either end (" monk ")?

Sorry if this is basic syntax but I am a complete newbie at this