I have <autorpodpis>([^;,<\n\r]*?)\s*[;,<\n\r] to catch everything inside
<autorpodpis>_this_is_an_example_of_what_I'd_like_to_match<Overall, the RegEx works fine with substitution \1 (or in AutoHotKey I use – $1). But I'd like match without using substitution.
You seem to mix the terms substitution (regex based replacement operation) and capturing (storing a part of the matched value captured with a part of a pattern enclosed with a pair of unescaped parentheses inside a numbered or named stack).
If you want to just match a substring in specific context without capturing any subvalues, you might consider using lookarounds (lookbehind or lookahead).
In your case, since you need to match a string after some known string, you need a lookbehind. A lookbehind tells the regex engine to temporarily step backwards in the string, to check if the text inside the lookbehind can be matched there.
So, you could use
pos := RegExMatch(input, "(?<=<autorpodpis>)\p{L}+(?:\s+\p{L}+)*", Res)
So, the Res should have WOJCIECH ZAŁUSKA if you supply <autorpodpis>WOJCIECH ZAŁUSKA</autorpodpis> as input.
Explanation:
(?<=<autorpodpis>) - check if there is <autorpodpis> right before the currently tested location. If there is none, fail this match, go on to the next location in string\p{L}+ - 1+ Unicode letters(?:\s+\p{L}+)* - 0+ sequences of 1+ whitespaces followed with 1+ Unicode letters.However, in most cases, and always in cases like this when the pattern in the lookbehind is known, the lookbehind is unanchored (say, when it is the first subpattern in the pattern) and you do not need overlapping matches, use capturing.
The version with capturing in place:
pos := RegExMatch(input, "<autorpodpis>(\p{L}+(?:\s+\p{L}+)*)", Res)
And then Res[1] will hold the WOJCIECH ZAŁUSKA value. Capturing is in most cases (96%) faster.
Now, your regex - <autorpodpis>([^;,<\n\r]*?)\s*[;,<\n\r] - is not efficient as the [^;,<\n\r] also matches \s and \s matches [;,<\n\r]. My regex is linear, each subsequent subpattern does not match the previous one.
