Select multiple occurrences of a line below a particular word

gayathri priya

Hi,
Consider the following text

XYZ system

Name UserID Position
ABC 123 Manager

GFY system

Name UserID Position
GBC 453 Sn.Manager.

I just want to select the name in each instance - just ABC and GBC.

Can you please help me here?

Thanks in advance

PeterJones

@gayathri-priya, welcome to the Notepad++ Community forums.

You said:

I just want to select the name in each instance - just ABC and GBC.

Assuming that your data rendered accurately, and any the name is the first word on the line after a “header line” that starts with literal “Name” (with no spaces before)

Find = ^Name.*\R\K\w+
Mode = Regular Expression

This finds a line starting with name, then advances the search thru the EOL for that line, moves down to the next line, starts the match over, and matches just the first “word” characters (alphanumeric and underscore, for regex)

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