I have a bunch of text, and I'm looking to recognize 2-5 UPPER CASE letters within a paragraph. A sample paragraph is this:
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United Airlines' parent UAL (UAUA) sprang a surprise in July when it posted second-quarter earnings that handily beat Street forecasts. Another surprise was how the stock has bounced up after UAL emerged from bankruptcy in February, 2006--despite high oil prices, rising competition, and public outcry about the airlines' disruptive flight cancellations and delays. The stock climbed from 21 in February to 49 on July 23, 2007, the day before the market's plunge.
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The regular expression that I'm currently using is: \(.*?\)
However, it recently failed on the following paragraph (for obvious reasons). Regular Expressions are just so pesky!
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Sweden's Elekta, which trades only in Stockholm, is getting more attention from American investors. (Its Bloomberg symbol is EKTAB.) Some 30% of its stock is owned by U.S. institutions, including Fidelity Investments and Lazard (LAZ). And nearly half of the global sales of Elekta's cancer radiation equipment are in the U.S. In that market Elekta is second only to Varian Medical Systems (VAR) in Palo Alto, Calif. No. 3 is Siemens (SI).
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It picked up the following: Its Bloomberg symbol is EKTAB.
I was HOPING it would only pick up: EKTAB
Any help would be greatly appreciated!