NeedleRegEx Variable help

[newpie]

Hello, I been experimenting with regex and had a question related to variables.

The below code works fine, if you replace the Haystack with the appropriate Message,

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MessageA = [7/4/2015 10:37:06 AM] Fred: Hello Friend 
MessageB = [7/4/2015 10:37:06 AM] Fred: Hello Bob
MessageC = [7/27/2015 10:00:33 PM] Sam (To Bob): What are you doing?

RegExMatch(MessageC, "\s(Friend|Bob)\D?|\s\(To Bob\):",match)
Msgbox, %match%
return

But when I try to make it more dynamic I can't get any results, is it possible to put a variable in regex above. Here is what I tried without success

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MessageA = [7/4/2015 10:37:06 AM] Fred: Hello Friend 
MessageB = [7/4/2015 10:37:06 AM] Fred: Hello Bob
MessageC = [7/27/2015 10:00:33 PM] Sam (To Bob): What are you doing?

Name = Bob
OtherName = Friend
RegExMatch(MessageC, "\s(%OtherName%|%Name%)\D?|\s\(To %Name%\):",match)
Msgbox, %match%
return

Thanks for any help.

[AlphaBravo]

RegEx is a function no need for % signs and variables are not enclosed in quotes

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RegExMatch(MessageC, "\s(" OtherName "|" Name ")\D?|\s\(To " Name "\):",match)

[sinkfaze]

You could potentially simplify your regex if your haystack is going to be that consistent:

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Message :=	["[7/4/2015 10:37:06 AM] Fred: Hello Friend"
		 ,"[7/4/2015 10:37:06 AM] Fred: Hello Bob"
		 ,"[7/27/2015 10:00:33 PM] Sam (To Bob): What are you doing?"]

For i, msg in Message
{
	RegExMatch(msg, "\]\s\K[^:]+:",match)
	Msgbox, %match%
}
return

[newpie]

Thanks for your help and time with this one guys.