REGEX help, please...

[ewkearns]

Recently, my phone company has started prefixing the CallerID with:

Spam?
SPAM?
Robo?, or
ROBO?

In the UltraCID PI, I added the following to "Use Name Block Mask," but it doesn't seem to be working. The REGEX Checker I normally use declares a "full match" with the 4 examples above. What am I doing wrong?

|S(?i)pam(?-i)\?.*|R(?i)obo(?-i)\?.*|

[AllHailJ]

I like to see what is happening so I use this regex tester on line

https://regex101.com/

I used this as the string - not as elegent but works.

[Ss][Pp][Aa][Mm]\?.*|[Rr][Oo][Bb][Oo]\?.*

or slightly cleaner

(?i)spam\?|(?i)robo\?

or to force it to look at the start of the string

^(?i)spam\?|^(?i)robo\?

I also do not understand the or symbol at the start and end of your expression?

Here is the cheatsheet I use: https://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html#chars

[ewkearns]

I like to see what is happening so I use this regex tester on line

https://regex101.com/

I used this as the string - not as elegent but works.

[Ss][Pp][Aa][Mm]\?.*|[Rr][Oo][Bb][Oo]\?.*

or slightly cleaner

(?i)spam\?|(?i)robo\?

or to force it to look at the start of the string

^(?i)spam\?|^(?i)robo\?

I also do not understand the or symbol at the start and end of your expression?

Here is the cheatsheet I use: https://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html#chars

Thanks, I'll try those. The "ors" came from cutting it out the middle of a list.

Note: My antivirus alerted on the above link. Apparently the page is calling another page that it deems suspicious.