How can I extract ISO and ASTM standards from a text using regex?

Question

I would like to extract the ISO and ASTM standards from a text. The corresponding literals ISO and ASTM followed by the numbers would have to be found.

Rules:

• Match starts with ISO or ASTM
• ASTM is followed by a D
• This is followed by a number (either preceded or not with a space or hyphen) that can also contain optional spaces and hyphens
• As soon as the number sequence ends, the match ends

Possible pattern for the first two rules:

(?:ISO|ASTM\s*D)

Example:

ISO 527-1, DIN EN ISO 3349-3, and ASTM D143 are all testing standards. ISO 31 33, ISO 334 9 are specific to static bending, but ASTM D 149-3 includes various other 9.

https://regex101.com/r/IFlqT2/1

What would a corresponding regex look like?

Answer 1

You can use

(?:ISO|ASTM\s*D)(?:[\s-]*\d)+

Details:

• (?:ISO|ASTM\s*D) - ISO or ASTM + zero or more whitespaces + D
• (?:[\s-]*\d)+ - one or more repetitions of
  • [\s-]* - zero or more whitespaces or hyphens
  • \d - a digit.

See the regex demo.