Regular Expression, Select word between two words

Question

I\'m reallllly new to regex and I need some help. I tried figuring out myself but had no luck!

I am trying to select text between 2 strings (character for the last strin

Answer 1

This should work if you get the first group:

\w+\s*(.+)\s*:

Answer 2

another alternative is to use this pattern

(?<=word\s).*(?=\s:)

See Lookahead and Lookbehind Zero-Width Assertions

Answer 3

/word (.*?) \:/ this should do the trick