How do I get all words that begin with a capital letter following a specific string?

Question

I have some text that could look something like this:

Name is William Bob Francis Ford Coppola-Mr-Cool King-Of-The-Mountain is a fake name.

I would like to run a regular expression against that string and pull out

William Bob Francis Ford Coppola-Mr-Cool King-Of-The-Mountain 

as a match.

My current regex looks like this:

/\b((NAME\s\s*)(((\s*\,*\s*)? *)(([A-Z\'\-])([A-Za-z\'\-]+)*\s*){2,})?)\b/ig

and it does most of what I want but it's not perfect. Instead of just getting the name, it is also getting the "is a" following the name like this:

"William Bob Francis Ford Coppola-Mr-Cool King-Of-The-Mountain is a"

What is a regex formula to get only the words starting with a capital letter following the "Name" label and end when the next word starts with a lowercase after a space?

Answer 1

How do you like /Name ((?:[A-Z]\w+[ -]?)+)/?

Regex101: https://regex101.com/r/BFJBpZ/1

Answer 2

You can use:

Name\b[\sa-z]*\K(?:[A-Z][a-z]+[\s-]*)+(?=\s[a-z])

where

• \K resets the starting point of the matching after having matched Name followed by some words in lower case
• (?:[A-Z][a-z]+[\s-]*)+ will match all the words starting with a capital letter
• (?=\s[a-z]) add the constraint that the following word starts with a lower case letter

demo: https://regex101.com/r/WBrdFU/1/

Notes:

you shouldn't use the i option in your regex, if you do so all of your char classes [A-Z] will at the same time match upper case letters but also lower case letters... This would prevent you from selecting the words that start with a capital letter!!!

Adding the names with apostrophe:

Name\b[\sa-z]*\K(?:[A-Z][a-z'\s-]*?)+(?=\s[a-z])

demo: https://regex101.com/r/WBrdFU/3/