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how to grab username wiith RE ?
For example:
User: john_smith
User john_smith
User john_smith
I need to grab john_smith
i tried this [ \t]+(User)?[: \t]*([.]+)
but can’t get it working.
Can anybody help?
Try without the leading
[ \t]+, which means ‘at least one’. Or use[ \t]*which means ‘as much as you want, maybe zero’.The word ‘User’ doesn’t look optional, so continue with
User[: \t]*. The dot is a Joker and matches every Character.Therefore it doesn’t make sense to include it into a group. The rest of the group gets meaningless, and it adds nothing to the dot. Therefore a dot in a group means a literal dot. Use just the dot instead:
(.+)