Re: Regular Expressions

Oh guess it would be even better and faster to only use: /Last Name:([^\n]*)/ and trim() the result :-) -- red Red Wingate wrote:

Yep, but to avoid his problem with empty Strings he should use something like: /Last Name: *(.*?)\n/ outerwise \s* will match the first newline and continue to the end of the next line ! Tim Van Wassenhove wrote:

In article <20040715144024.00007d80@ariktab>, Arik Raffael Funke wrote:

implement following pattern "Last Name:\s*(.*)\n".

I get just 'Jason'. But what I currently get is: Jason Street: abc

This is behaviour because (.*) is greedy. As you noticed, it matched "Jason \nStreet:abc" /Last Name:\s+(.*?)\n/