I have a string of the general form: Name: Last,First Middle ID: GA88192
I am trying to extract the first name by invoking string.replace function, for example to extract the first name I invoke the following where 'nameidstring' is the general form above: (clojure.string/replace nameidstring #"Name:\s(\w+){1},(\w+){1}" "$2") Unfortunately, this gives me the First name along with ID: GA88192 since i specified a single word {1} in my regex above I don't understand why this is happening. THank you for any advice -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.