Are these occuring in the middle of a line?
If not, just anchor it to the start of the line with "^":

^(\S+)\s+(\d+)

---Hillel

On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:00:06 -0600, Bartis, Robert M \(Bob\) wrote
>  I have a need to evaluate the following lines such that the first
>  regexp rule consumes or matches all but the last line of the strings
>  shown below:
> 
>  asdd 3
> 
>  jhiuya 5
> 
>  as5ads 6
> 
>  Total number of things above 3
> 
>  The rule used for the first three lines is
> 
>  (\S+)\s+(\d+)
> 
>  and for the last line
> 
>  (Total number of things above)\s+(\d+)
>  
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