Regex - Find 2 words or more using regex

Question

I have a simple regex to grab a string, It works fine with words like HelloWorld without space and how can i grab a words with space or more than 1 word like Hello World

Text File

FAN PS-2 is NOT PRESENT  #like this 'NOT PRESENT'

Regex

Value FAN_PS (\S*) # regex

Start 
  ^FAN PS is ${FAN_PS_1}

What should I change in my regex so I can grab more than 1 word?

Thank you.

Possible duplicate of [regular expression to allow spaces between words](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15472764/regular-expression-to-allow-spaces-between-words) — Malte Hartwig, Jun 21 '17 at 07:58
i already try it, but it's doesn't work.. actually i'm new with regex so i'm a little confused with regex — Nedy Suprianto, Jun 21 '17 at 08:16
So you have tried to replace `\S*` by `[\S\s]*` or even `.*`? — Malte Hartwig, Jun 21 '17 at 08:45
ohh.. i'm wrong, i replace this part `${RPS}`, not `\S*`... thanks @MalteHartwig, it's worked — Nedy Suprianto, Jun 21 '17 at 08:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '17 at 08:56

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You have to change your regular expressions. The current expressions \S* match a string of non-white-space characters, so it is normal that you only get the first word.

If you change \S* to [\S ]*, you will get multiple words. You can even change it to the simpler .* if you do not care about certain characters.

Read the python regex reference for information on different character classes.

answered Jun 21 '17 at 08:56

Malte Hartwig

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how if only 2 words? – Nedy Suprianto Jun 21 '17 at 08:59
Just try it, it is really not that difficult. There is a quick approach here: https://regex101.com/r/RYLngN/. It can be done much nicer with a `{m}` quantifier (see documentation mentioned above) in case you want a certain number of words. – Malte Hartwig Jun 21 '17 at 09:04
Ok, Thanks you for you're help – Nedy Suprianto Jun 21 '17 at 09:10

Regex - Find 2 words or more using regex

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