Hello:

Looking for a suggestion of a better way to do this, instead of doing about 30 regex's in a row.

I have NWS API data for icons that references their long list of a wide array of icons with extra data that I do not need.

https://api.weather.gov/icons/land/day/tsra_sct,20/tsra_sct,40?size=me
+dium
https://api.weather.gov/icons/land/day/rain_showers,30/tsra_hi,30?size
+=medium
https://api.weather.gov/icons/land/night/rain_showers,30/rain_showers?
+size=medium",
https://api.weather.gov/icons/land/day/bkn?size=medium

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All I really need is the modifier (tsra, rain, sleet, bkn, skc, few, ovc, etc). I don't really need anything else. Because the format somewhat changes with each response, it's a bit hard to regex down to just the modifier, as some times there are 2, and no established list of all the possibilities. At this point I figure possibly use just the first modifier listed. I am going to try and regex it down to just the modifier and see how that works, but I am afraid they will through a wrench in the works at some point that will trip up that regex.

Instead of doing a separate regex for each modifier, is there a way to use an array with a single regex to do a look up table to get the new icon reference? Or another way to see if any modifier is anywhere in the string, then return referenced new icon name?

{
     'skc'  => "clear-day",
     'few'  => "partly-cloudy-day",
     'sct'  => "partly-cloudy-day",
     'bkn'  => "cloudy",
     'wind' => "wind"
}

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Any suggestions would be appreciated. Once pointed in the right direction, usually I can figure the rest out. I just can't think of a better way to do this. Too many things on my mind as well, like many others right now. Thanks you!

In reply to Regex to Array lookup question by johnfl68

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