Regex to find two words : bait & bated

Asked Feb 28 '19 at 17:31

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I am trying to find two words in a sentence , either one word or both may exist in the sentence .Words are bait and bated

I am trying to use the concept of capturing group and was able to get the two words using the below regex ba(?:it)?(?:ted)? .The problem with this is that it returns ba for words like balance or bala etc...

Can it possible to get a regex of the similar structure but without matching ba?

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Use word boundaries. `\bba(?:it)?(?:ted)?\b` [Demo](https://regex101.com/r/2Lj8XF/1) – Pushpesh Kumar Rajwanshi Feb 28 '19 at 17:33
@PushpeshKumarRajwanshi That matches just "ba" too, though. – Wiseguy Feb 28 '19 at 17:36
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@Wiseguy: Sorry you are right. Actually it should have been `\b(?:bated|bait)\b` – Pushpesh Kumar Rajwanshi Feb 28 '19 at 17:38
Try this regex `ba(i)?t(ed)?` – JarekBaran Feb 28 '19 at 17:40

Regex to find two words : bait & bated

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