Sigh, I shouldn't code and talk simultaneously.
Okay, given that, couldn't you have used:\^\d+\s+\w+
^\^\d+\s*\w+ ^ anchors to the front of the line
\^ escapes the caret \d+ matches one or more digits [0-9]
\s* matches zero or more whitespace
\w+ matches one or more word characters [0-9A-Za-z_]
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