Regex - Matching text AFTER certain characters

Question

I want to scrape data from some text and dump it into an array. Consider the following text as example data:

| Example Data
| Title: This is a sample title
|         


        

Answer 1

In Ruby, as in PCRE and Boost, you may make use of the \K match reset operator:

\K keeps the text matched so far out of the overall regex match. h\Kd matches only the second d in adhd.

So, you may use

/:[[:blank:]]*\K.+/     # To only match horizontal whitespaces with `[[:blank:]]`
/:\s*\K.+/              # To match any whitespace with `\s`

Seee the Rubular demo #1 and the Rubular demo #2 and

Details

• : - a colon
• [[:blank:]]* - 0 or more horizontal whitespace chars
• \K - match reset operator discarding the text matched so far from the overall match memory buffer
• .+ - matches and consumes any 1 or more chars other than line break chars (use /m modifier to match any chars including line break chars).