Hi Nicholas! There's a few ways of doing this. If you know there is one space between the word "description" and the word you want, you can use this pattern:

  ([^\s]+)\sdescription

That is, "one or more of anything except a space character, then a space character, then the word descriptions (capturing the part before the space character)"

Alternatively you can do

  (\S+)\sdescription

where \S is the equivalent of [^\s].

Note that these things will also capture symbols and stuff, so it'll match #O'Malley!! in 

  Hello Mr. #O'Malley!! description

You can also do something like

  (\S+)\s+description

if there is a potential of more than one space before the word 'description'

Thank you for these responses.  Those didn't quite work only because I left out a bit of information. Zone OCR reads the text as follows:

         NAME 
NICHOLAS J MARTIN 
         DESCRIPTION

I am trying to grab the last name separately from everything else for metadata.  Not sure the best way to do this.  Some employees have middle initial, some don't and some have full middle name, so the inconsistencies make it difficult.  So I thought grabbing any 1 word before description would work but description is on a separate line.  I hope I am making sense. :)