VBA Regex - match entire string unless repeating pattern - regex

Question

I am vexed - and I suspect there is an easy solution to this but after a fair amount of research, I'm reaching out to the community.
I'm using the regex method in vba to try to split strings. What I want to occur is that the entire string will match the pattern unless there is another name in the string. The name can be described by:
"\s?[a-zA-Z-]*,\s[a-zA-Z]*:\s.*"
I would expect that the method would return everything after the name is matched - until another name is matched. This would be the desired outcome.
The strings I'm applying that pattern to are:
Meck, Mary: Fri 6/14/2019 5:00 PM -- 10:00 PM CLERKPETRO Flinstone, Fred: Fri 6/14/2019 10:00 AM -- 4:00 PM CLERKPETRO Powers, Kenny: Fri 6/14/2019 10:00 PM -- 11:00 PM
Rhodes, Randy: Sat 6/15/2019 10:15 AM -- 11:30 AM SERVCNTR Sat 6/15/2019 11:30 AM -- 12:45 PM CLICK AND PICK Sat 6/15/2019 12:45 PM -- 2:15 PM SERVCNTR
When I apply the pattern to either string, the entire string is returned. This is not optimal because I'm trying to split on names using matches(0), matches(1), etc.. so the first string should match on:
Meck, Mary: Fri 6/14/2019 5:00 PM -- 10:00 PM CLERKPETRO
Flinstone, Fred: Fri 6/14/2019 10:00 AM -- 4:00 PM CLERKPETRO
Powers, Kenny: Fri 6/14/2019 10:00 PM -- 11:00 PM
yet the second string should match on the entire string (as it currently does) because there is not a second name in that string.
How do I solve this problem?

Answer 1

This is one way to do it
\b[a-zA-Z-]+,\s?[a-zA-Z]+:.*?(?=\b[a-zA-Z-]+,\s?[a-zA-Z]+:|$)
https://regex101.com/r/ccj6ea/1
Expanded
\b
[a-zA-Z-]+
,
\s?
[a-zA-Z]+
:
.*?
(?=
\b
[a-zA-Z-]+
,
\s?
[a-zA-Z]+
:
|
$
)

Answer 2

RegEx 1
I'm guessing that we wish to capture three parts of the strings listed in the question, which if that might be the case, we would be starting by slightly modifying the original expression:
(?:\s+)?([a-zA-Z-]+),?(?:\s+)?([a-zA-Z]+):(.+?[A-Z]{3,}).*
where our desired outputs are in these three groups:
([a-zA-Z-]+)
([a-zA-Z]+)
(.+?[A-Z]{3,})
Demo
RegEx Circuit
jex.im visualizes regular expressions:
RegEx 2
If we wish to split them on names, we would simplify our expression to:
(?:\s+)?([A-Z][a-zA-Z-]+),?(?:\s+)?([A-Z][a-zA-Z]+):
Demo 2