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Why do the spaces between a_bird and is always "creep into" the first variable res1 here:

"\D" means any non-digit, and that includes spaces. Possibly, using a different class (like \S) or a word-boundary (\b) is appropriate in your case.

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I think the more important question is why shouldn't they creep into the variable? Your matching criteria for your that variable is this:



Which is one or more non-digit or underscore. A space is not an underscore but it is a non-digit, so it should match your pattern. Basically you want any alpha character or underscore here, which can be accomplished a few ways:



I prefer this just for my own clarity:

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I see. Thank you, [VxE] and sinkfaze!!!
My understanding of \d and \D was wrong.

I am sorry. I tried [\D\S_] way and came across the same problem.
What am I doing wrong now? I wasn't able to find the answer on my own:

This will match any character that is not a digit OR not a space OR an underscore. As sinkfaze stated above, perhaps this would work better :

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Ignore that option I had presented, since I now realize that the matching criteria for \D and \S will apparently conflict. Try either of the other two methods instead.

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I see. Thank you, jethrow and sinkfaze!!!