Quick guidance on regex please

Ui.Vision
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Your regular expression works ok, but you need to tell the RPA software to use Match1,Group1 => You do this by adding @1,1 behind the regex.

My test macro works - it runs on this forum post :smiley:

regex group1
regex group11684×1062 182 KB 

{
  "Name": "regex1",
  "CreationDate": "2020-4-8",
  "Commands": [
    {
      "Command": "open",
      "Target": "https://forum.ui.vision/t/quick-guidance-on-regex-please/4923",
      "Value": ""
    },
    {
      "Command": "sourceExtract",
      "Target": "regex=videosUuids\\\"\\:\\[\\\"(.*?)\\\"\\]@1,1",
      "Value": "r"
    },
    {
      "Command": "echo",
      "Target": "r=${r}",
      "Value": "green"
    }
  ]
}

See also How do you use Regex capture groups