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amberdash
amberdash

Reputation: 25

Regex for returning several patterns within one string

I'm looking for a way to extract names from the text below, i.e., any string occurrences that appear between "applicant(s).: " and the following ",Please". Is this possible?

Please enter the name of your school.: Test Primary School,Please enter the name(s) of your applicant(s).: Sandra McTest,Please enter the name of your school.: Test Primary School,Please enter the name(s) of your applicant(s).: Grace Test, Brad Test, Lovelace Test,Please enter the name of your school.: Test Primary School,

I'd really appreciate some help as I'm just getting started with regex. Thanks heaps in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 46

Answers (1)

vszholobov
vszholobov

Reputation: 2363

You can do it using look-arounds

/(?<=applicant\(s\)\.:).*?(?=Please|$)/gm

It captures everyting between applicant(s).: string and Please string or end of line.

Demo

Upvotes: 1

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