RegEx to get text after word and new line

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Hey,

I’m trying to become better at Regex. Can someone please help me get “Company ABC” in this string:

Company Name: Company ABC
Address: Fake Address

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Use regex (?<=Company Name: ).*.

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Hey thanks for this.

I understand everything until the .* What does the .* do?

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The . means “any character”, whether it be a space, numbers, letters, etc. The * means “0 or more of the previous indicator”. So in all it means “0 or more of any character”.

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ah so after Company name, get any character?

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Yes, and this works on a single-line basis. So if your string contains newline characters, it stops before going to the next line.

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Great! So what if I wanted a newline as well? Say I wanted “Company ABC DEF Corp” from:

Company Name: Company ABC
DEF Corp

?

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Then append \n.* if you want all lines after that in one match.

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Ah great! But what if I just want the next line and not all the lines?

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Append \n[^\n]* instead.

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Watch this video:

I found it to be a great tutorial.

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