Regular expression containing one word or another

You just missed an extra pair of brackets for the "OR" symbol. The following should do the trick:

([0-9]+)\s+((\bseconds\b)|(\bminutes\b))

Without those you were either matching a number followed by seconds OR just the word minutes


You can use a single group for seconds/minutes. The following expression may suit your needs:

([0-9]+)\s*(seconds|minutes)

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