Question

In the example below, a dialogue between two people I want to match only the interrogators text. (The text on the left)

Hello, how are you?                 I am fine.
What is your name?                  My name is Simon.
What does Simon say?                Put your hands on your head.

When I perform a regular expression individually on each line I want to extract

Hello, how are you?
What is your name?
What does Simon say?

However, I also want to allow for room for error in the questioning text allowing for up to 5 white spaces between words. The number of white space between the questioner and the answerer is always over 5 characters.

I have tried this

([^ ]| {0,5})*

but that captures the whole line

And this

[^( {0,5})]+

but I guess you can’t use parenthesis in between brackets to evaluate the inner text first and specify that as a single character.

Any ideas are welcome, thanks 🙂

Answer 1

(.*[^ ])[ ]{5}.*