Question

I have a block of text that contains elements like:

@[30:Larry Peters]

Example: @[19:Sara Mas] what’s the latest with the TPS report? @[30:Larry Peters] can you help out here?

I had been using: /@\[\d+:\w+\s\w+\]/

Problem is I’ve found that only matches first and last name. And not:

1. First name only
2. First, middle and lastname

Is there a way to fix this regex to match any type of name, f, f+m, f+m+l ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Either allow multiple words:

/@\[\d+:\w+(\s\w+){0,2}\]/ for up to three

or allow any amount of words and spaces:

/@\[\d+:[\w\s]+?\]/