Regex matches specific occurences

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I am trying to use regex (PCRE2) to scrape data from mail, I am having issue trying to match specific occurrence.

Example:

Person Requesting

Salutation Mr.
First Name* Paul
Last Name* John

Person Handling Request

Salutation Ms.
First Name* Alice
Last Name* Parish

I am using the following regex to get the first name: (?<=First Name\*).+. So, I get Paul, what I want to do is having different regex to get the second matches only.

I tried using lookaround function :

(?=Person Handling Request)+(?<=First Name\*).+

My question is, how would I go to get only the First Name from Person Handling Request?

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1 Answers

You can use

(?s)Person Handling Request.*?First Name\*\s*\K(?-s).+

See the regex demo. Details:

  • (?s) - make . match line break chars, too
  • Person Handling Request - a fixed string
  • .*? - any zero or more chars, as few as possible
  • First Name\* - a First Name* fixed string
  • \s* - zero or more whitespaces
  • \K - match reset operator that removes all text matched so far from the overall match memory buffer
  • (?-s) - disable DOTALL effect
  • .+ - match and return the rest of the line (one or more chars other than line break chars).
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