first name and title without parenthesis in a single regex

Question

how to put the following 2 regex together to capture both groups in one expression:

(^[a-zA-Z]*) should capture the first name, first_here

\\((.+?)\\) should capture the title

to extract:

Donald President
Mike Vice President

from:

Donald Trump (President)
Mike Pence (Vice President)

Answer 1

You can combine as follows to match first name and title. then use first and second captured group to form output.

^([a-zA-Z]*).*?\(([^)]+?)\)

Demo

Answer 2

You might use

^(?P<name>\w+)[^()]+\((?P<function>[^()]+)\)

See a demo on regex101.com .

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Obviously this will work for

Cake Cookie (Sugar)

as well. If you want to limit it to names only, use a database.