There is some text I'm selecting which goes something like this: Name: John Doe Age: 23. I am trying to extract name and age. Here are my regex expressions:
Name:
Name: ([A-z ]+)
Age:
Age: (\d+)
However, both the Name: and Age: text appears. How do I get rid of this? I thought enclosing it in a captrue group would help, but it's doesn't work at all!
For this case, you would need a "positive lookbehind". the lookbehind is only used for matching, and it won't be captured.
(?<=Name: )[A-Za-z ]+
Awesome, that kind of makes sense. Thanks a lot. This seems like a bit of a workaround though. Is there any way to achieve this using capture groups? It sounds like it would be much simpler just to capture the first group using $1.
In regex, capture groups are mainly used for find-n-replace operations. WS currently does not support regex replace, it only does regex match (find).
Ah I see. I think I was misunderstanding regex. Thanks