How do I capture the text before the second capital appears

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HyderabadProduct Development, Design his own designs and developed the websites. Framework: Magento: Drupal, Joomla, Ruby on Rails , Codeigniter (any one or a combination). Good in Sql Database. Looking.

From the above text i want to capture data only Hyderabad i.e, i want to remove the text when second capital appears using regular expression

Posted 11-Jul-14 2:44am

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George Jonsson · Answer 1 · 2014-07-11T02:51:00

Solution 1

C#

Regex regex = new Regex(@"^(?<part>[A-Z][a-z]+)[A-Z]");

Match m = regex.Match(@"HyderabadProduct Development, Design his own designs and developed the websites. Framework: Magento: Drupal, Joomla, Ruby on Rails , Codeigniter (any one or a combination). Good in Sql Database. Looking.");

if (m.Success)
{
   string wantedPart = m.Groups["part"].Value;
}

Posted 11-Jul-14 2:51am

George Jonsson

Updated 11-Jul-14 2:52am

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Member 10226004 11-Jul-14 9:12am

Hi George
Thanks for the reply,

I am actually using a third party tool to capture the data - i don't have an option change the coding but can simple apply a small regular expression to retrieve the data. I have tried with the following expression .*(?=[A-Z]{1,2}) but this was removing the last word - Looking.
It will be awesome if you could suggest an expression in the same manner to retrieve only the word Hyderabad - [Text before the second capital letter]

George Jonsson 11-Jul-14 9:47am

I just did.
Try the code.

Peter Leow · Answer 2 · 2014-07-11T03:38:00

Solution 2

If all are alphabets only before the 2nd capital:

(?=(^[A-Z][a-z]*))

Posted 11-Jul-14 3:38am

Peter Leow

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Member 10226004 11-Jul-14 10:17am

PHP Developer, 1 Yrs
Company:Eminent Solution
Location:HyderabadProduct Development, Design his own designs and developed the websites. Framework: Magento: Drupal, Joomla, Ruby on Rails , Codeigniter (any one or a combination). Good in Sql Database. Looking.

I am able to get it right but earlier i used this expression to separate the location first
with the text before it using this expression (?<=Location:).* But now when i combine both it is not working for me. Can you suggest another alternative