I'm looking for a way to find two or more words in a sentence that might come in any order. For example I might look for the words "NCAA" and "Basketball" in a sentence that says NCAA Indiana Vs. Purdue Basketball" or it might say "Indiana Vs. Purdue Basketball NCAA". How would I write the regex for the words showing in any order and any location in the string?
You can use lookahead:
(?=.*NCAA)(?=.*Basketball)
Explanation:
(?=.*NCAA): Positive lookahead to assert presence of string NCAA any where ahead of the current position(?=.*Basketball): Positive lookahead to assert presence of string Basketball any where ahead of the current positionOr else use alternation if your regex tool doesn't support lookaheads:
NCAA.*?Basketball|Basketball.*?NCAA