Regular expression to extract first word from sentence

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Hi All,

I want to extract the first word from a sentence by using regular expression.

Example - I/p : asdfeghh qwerty hrktjhrtkhrkt
Expected o/p : asdfeghh

Can anyone help me to solve this?

Thanks

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HI @rnahasnahasuddin

How about this expression

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(YourString,"^\S+").Tostring

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Hi,

How about the following?

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(yourString,"\w+").Value

Regards,

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Hi @rnahasnahasuddin

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^\w+(?=.+html)

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Can you all help me with the regular expression to use in Abbyy flexilayout studio

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Hi @rnahasnahasuddin

You can directly use a split activity instead as below

Say your string variable is str

Then str.Trim.Split(“ ”,2,StringSplitOptions.None)(0).Trim

This will always give the first work

Cheers

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Hi @rnahasnahasuddin

Try ^\S+

Cheers

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Kindly check out the document @rnahasnahasuddin

https://help.abbyy.com/en-us/finereader/12/regularexpression/

https://help.abbyy.com/en-us/flexicapture/12/flexilayout_studio/regex_ext/

Regards
Gokul

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Can you help me with an example?

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Hi @rnahasnahasuddin

Check out this video and docs

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