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How to exclude parts of a line in regex

Out of the line Your name is: "Foo Bar" I want to select Foo Bar in regex only.

I have tried non-capturing groups without success : (?:^Your name is: ").*(?:")$

"(.*?)" Works but I don’t want the double quotes to be selected

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>Solution :

You can use lookbehind and lookahead:

(?<=^Your name is: ").+(?="$)

(?<= looks behind for Your name is: " and
(?= looks ahead for ".

The result will be whatever is between that.

regex101

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