regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Pro

Namethe literal text Name (case sensitive)

\ban ASCII word boundary

Character Class[\sa-z]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

\sany whitespace character

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

\Kresets the starting point of the reported match. Any previously consumed characters are no longer included in the final match

Non-Capturing Group(?:[A-Z][a-z'\s-]*?)+

+repeats the group contents below at least once:

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[a-z'\s-]*?

*?matches any number of characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

'the literal ' (39₁₀ / 47₈ / 27₁₆)

\sany whitespace character

-the literal - (45₁₀ / 55₈ / 2D₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=\s[a-z])

\sany whitespace character

Character Class[a-z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

25 tokens

Regular Expression

Name\b[\sa-z]*\K(?:[A-Z][a-z'\s-]*?)+(?=\s[a-z])

New

Name is William Bob Francis Ford Coppola-Mr-Cool King-Of-The-Mountain is a fake name.
Allan Marc, Name is William Francis King-Of-The-Mountain might be a real name.
His Name is O'neil O'Leary with an apostrophes.

Substitution

Name is William Bob Francis Ford Coppola-Mr-Cool King-Of-The-Mountain is a fake name.
Allan Marc, Name is William Francis King-Of-The-Mountain might be a real name.
His Name is O'neil O'Leary with an apostrophes.