Extract PDF text using Regex

[Jessica_Moseley (Jessica)]

Hi Community!

I am new to Regex.
I read a PDF and output a string variable ‘text’.
I am trying to capture what comes after FROM: which are 3 lines followed by SUBJECT:. Example below.
ex. FROM: James Bond
Associate Director, C Team
Office of Towers
SUBJECT: XYZ

I’d like to capture the first line ‘FROM: James Bond’
Assigned James Bond as string variable ABC

I have Regex as
ABC= System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match( text, “(?<=FROM: ).*(?=SUBJECT:)”).value

The output is blank. Please help. Thank you!

[sarathi125 (Parthasarathi)]

@Jessica_Moseley ,

Check this regex101: build, test, and debug regex

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

@Jessica_Moseley

(?<=FROM: ).*(?=SUBJECT:)

the . is expressing every character except line break.

for getting text spanning over multiple line we can do:

for James Bond only we can do (optional trim the value afterwards)

[Jessica_Moseley (Jessica)]

Thanks, this worked!

system.text.regularexpressions.regex.match(text, “(?<=FROM:).*”).value