Regex for particular section of content

Question

I wanted to write a JavaScript regex for the following text:

If you’re curious about this, it’s a garbled quotation from Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Bad), book 1, paragraph 32, which reads, “Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci velit,” meaning, “There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.” The book was popular during the Renaissance, when the passage was used in a book of type samples for that wonderful new technology, printing.

If the regex matches Bonorum, it should capture all the content after the Bonorum text until passage.

I'm trying with (issue\s+date)(.*?)excluding, but it is not working

Thank You

I don't think the text contains `issue` or `date` or `excluding` right? — The fourth bird, Dec 23 '19 at 11:18
Did you mean to use a pattern like `\bBonorum\b(.*?\bpassage\b)` https://regex101.com/r/V33ZGF/1 or https://regex101.com/r/LraTZ3/1 — The fourth bird, Dec 23 '19 at 11:26
You have to be a bit more specific than that. Did you see the demo links? Are that not the expected matches? Did you check the posted answer? — The fourth bird, Dec 23 '19 at 11:52
@Thefourthbird I had checked but it is not working in my set of string — Faizan Shaikh, Dec 23 '19 at 12:01
You could update the question adding the code and the text that you are using with the expected matches. — The fourth bird, Dec 23 '19 at 12:03

Booboo · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-23T11:45:38.260

See Regex Demo

let s =  "If you’re curious about this, it’s a garbled quotation from Cicero’s De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Ends of Good and Bad), book 1, paragraph 32, which reads, “Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci velit,” meaning, “There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain.” The book was popular during the Renaissance, when the passage was used in a book of type samples for that wonderful new technology, printing.";
let regex = /(?<=Bonorum ).*?passage/;
let result = regex.exec(s);
if (result) {
    console.log(result[0])
}

Or you could use /(?<=\bBonorum ).*?\bpassage\b/ to ensure Bonorum and passage are on word boundaries, if that is a requirement.

Or use /(?<=\bBonorum ).*?(?=\bpassage\b)/ if you do not want to include the word passage (not entirely clear in the question).

Regex for particular section of content

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