How to get the first word in the string

Question

text is :

WYATT    - Ranked # 855 with    0.006   %
XAVIER   - Ranked # 587 with    0.013   %
YONG     - Ranked # 921 with    0.006   %
YOUNG    - Ranked # 8         


        

Answer 1

Use this regex

^\w+

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\w+ matches 1 to many characters.

\w is similar to [a-zA-Z0-9_]

^ depicts the start of a string

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About Your Regex

Your regex (.*)?[ ] should be ^(.*?)[ ] or ^(.*?)(?=[ ]) if you don't want the space