Regular Expressions 101

Positive Lookbehind(?<=^User name:)

^start of line

User name:the literal text User name: (case sensitive)

\s*any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Group 1(\S.+)

\Sany non-whitespace character

.+any character (except for line terminators), repeated at least once

$end of line

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

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Regular Expression

(?<=^User name:)\s*(\S.+)$

Test String
New

Action:         NEW

User name:      Matthew Thomas
Job title:      Dealer Account Manager
Direct report:      Craig Carlson
Department:         Dealer Account Management
Location:       Milton, QLD
Employment type:    Permanent Full Time
Start date:         15/07/2013
Finish date:


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