clojure.string/replace replaces the portion of the string matched by the regex 
with the replacement. If you add ".*" to the regex, the regex will match the 
entire input string and the form will evaluate to "First".

--Steve

On May 27, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Glen Rubin <rubing...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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