Question

I am using the following regex to determine the next word found after a certain marker:

(?<=marker:\W{1})(\w+)

How can this be updated to determine the next 8 characters after the marker, including space, or other special chars like - or /

Thanks,
Alex

Source looks like this:

test : 1205
no.: abc    
marker: 12345678
something: xxx

and I require 12345678

Answer 1

Use . instead of \w in your capturing group and use another quantifier:

(?<=marker:\W)(.{8})