pandas remove all words before a specific word and get the first n words after that specific word

Question

I have a dataframe like this:

df=pd.DataFrame({'caption':'hello this pack is for you: Jake Peralta. Thanks'})
df

caption
hello this pack is for you: Jake Peralta. Thanks
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I'm trying to get the recipient's first and last name here. The format of the caption column is always the same. So delete everything before for you: and get the first 2(this number may change) words after for you:

Answer 1

Takes care of leading spaces in name:

>>> df.caption.str.split(".").str[0].str.split(":").str[1].str.strip()

1    Jake Peralta
Name: caption, dtype: object

Answer 2

here is one way:

df.caption.apply(lambda st: st[st.find(":")+2:st.find(".")])

output:

0     Jake Peralta
Name: caption, dtype: object

Answer 3

May be you can try like this

df['caption'].str.split("for you: ").str[1].str.split('.').str[0]

output:

0    Jake Peralta
1      first last