In regex, how to search after the first occurrence of a string?

Question

Given I have a string

Teacher: ID: 123 Something: Something Name: ABC Age: 40 Student1: Name: XYZ Age: 12 Student2: Name: ABC

I want to check using regex that the first Name: after Teacher corresponds to ABC

I have tried to do using lazy

/(Teacher:(.*?)Name: ABC)

but that would return true even if

Teacher: Name: EFG Age: 40 Student1: Name: XYZ Age: 12 Student2: Name: ABC because it will then take the larger string.

EDIT: added try and made more generic

Why you do not search for `Teacher: Name:` and `Student2: Name: ABC`? — Jens, Nov 07 '22 at 10:37
@Jens Because there might be more content between Name and Teacher — killsteenkill, Nov 07 '22 at 10:40
when testing ypur expression it's seems correct! [link](https://regex101.com/r/GSTlze/1) — D_action, Nov 07 '22 at 10:49

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '22 at 10:44

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You should not cross matching Name:

Teacher:(?:(?!\bName:).)*\bName: ABC

answered Nov 07 '22 at 10:44

The fourth bird

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