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PONeed regexp to find substring between two tokens
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    copied!<p>I suspect this has already been answered somewhere, but I can't find it, so...</p> <p>I need to extract a string from between two tokens in a larger string, in which the second token will probably appear again meaning... (pseudo code...)</p> <pre><code>myString = "A=abc;B=def_3%^123+-;C=123;" ; myB = getInnerString(myString, "B=", ";" ) ; method getInnerString(inStr, startToken, endToken){ return inStr.replace( EXPRESSION, "$1"); } </code></pre> <p>so, when I run this using expression "<code>.+B=(.+);.+</code>" I get "def_3%^123+-;C=123;" presumably because it just looks for the LAST instance of ';' in the string, rather than stopping at the first one it comes to.</p> <p>I've tried using (?=) in search of that first ';' but it gives me the same result.</p> <p>I can't seem to find a regExp reference that explains how one can specify the "NEXT" token rather than the one at the end.</p> <p>any and all help greatly appreciated.</p> <hr> <p>Similar question on SO:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1237/regex-to-pull-out-a-section-a-substing-from-a-string-between-two-tags">Regex: To pull out a sub-string between two tags in a string</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/328387/regex-to-replace-all-n-in-a-string-but-no-those-inside-code-code-tag">Regex to replace all \n in a String, but no those inside [code] [/code] tag</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/180793/replace-patterns-that-are-inside-delimiters-using-a-regular-expression-call">Replace patterns that are inside delimiters using a regular expression call</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/299942/regex-matching-html-tags-and-extracting-text">RegEx matching HTML tags and extracting text</a></li> </ul>
 

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