It seems like you're actually trying to extract a name vice simply find a match. If this is the case, having span indexes for your match is helpful and I'd recommend using re.finditer. As a shortcut, you know the name part of your regex is length 5 and the is valid is length 9, so you can slice the matching text to extract the name.
Note - In your example, it looks like s is string with line breaks, so that's what's assumed below.
## covert s to list of strings separated by line:s2 = s.splitlines()## find matches by line: for i, j in enumerate(s2): matches = re.finditer("name (.*) is valid", j) ## ignore lines without a match if matches: ## loop through match group elements for k in matches: ## get text match_txt = k.group(0) ## get line span match_span = k.span(0) ## extract username my_user_name = match_txt[5:-9] ## compare with original text print(f'Extracted Username: {my_user_name} - found on line {i}') print('Match Text:', match_txt)
