Regex to match string containing two names in any order

Question

I need logical AND in regex.

something like

jack AND james

agree with following strings

• \'hi jack here is

Answer 1

Vim has a branch operator \& that is useful when searching for a line containing a set of words, in any order. Moreover, extending the set of required words is trivial.

For example,

/.*jack\&.*james

will match a line containing jack and james, in any order.

See this answer for more information on usage. I am not aware of any other regex flavor that implements branching; the operator is not even documented on the Regular Expression wikipedia entry.