Question

It sounds pretty simple but I cant figure this out, please help me out.

So… I have file with following data:

Name: Santi
Surname: Dore
Name: Rob
Surname: Doe
and so on..

I need to match only the whole part that starts with “Name:” … NOT “Surname:” …

Here is what I am using right now to match it:

/Name(:)(.*)/i

It will match both but I need just Name: …

Please dont suggest any other way of finding, just please help me out with regex to work the way I described.

Answer 1

Leave off the i modifier, which makes the regex case-insensitive.

And/or, add some word boundaries:

/\bName(:) (.*)\b/