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 string)

ie:

word word2 :

I am trying to select "word2" between word and :

thanks!

Answer 1

another alternative is to use this pattern

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

See Lookahead and Lookbehind Zero-Width Assertions

Answer 2

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