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    <p>I have a text like this.</p> <pre><code>Mr John Smith , Mr James Smith +(21)-(21)-12345678, 12345678, 12345678 +(21)-12345678, 12345678, 12345678 SomeTextHereAlso +(21)-(22)-12345678 www.somewebaddress.co.uk Some Title, Some Place , Some Town,Some Suburb,  City - 100000 </code></pre> <p>I want to extract each of these strings using regex in javascript. I found some examples and this morning they worked. Now I don't know why they don't work any more.</p> <p>To extract</p> <pre><code>Mr John Smith , Mr James Smith </code></pre> <p>I used this.</p> <pre><code>/\S(.*)\+/ and /\S(.*?)\+/ </code></pre> <p>This didn't work. I can't figure out why.</p> <p>To extract this</p> <pre><code>+(21)-(21)-12345678, 12345678, 12345678 +(21)-12345678, 12345678, 12345678 SomeTextHereAlso +(21)-(22)-12345678 </code></pre> <p>I used this.</p> <pre><code>/\+(.*)(?=www.)/ </code></pre> <p>This did work.</p> <p>And for url I used</p> <pre><code>/www(.*?)(?=\s\s)/ </code></pre> <p>And this works too. </p> <p>The only problem is the first example that should extract all the characters until the first + but it extracts all the characters until the last +.</p> <p>I checked on <a href="http://gskinner.com/RegExr/?2tr5t" rel="nofollow">http://gskinner.com/RegExr/?2tr5t</a> and the examples I showed here work. Are there any more similar examples that could help me since I looked into the code and didn't find any error.</p> <p>If regex is fine then how can I use IndexOf() method for this example to extract what I want?</p>
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    1. CO@missingno’s [solution](http://stackoverflow.com/a/11086693/990363) works, but it shouldn’t be necessary: while your first example (`\S(.*)\+`) uses a *greedy quantifier*, which will try to grab as many characters as possible while still matching and hence ends with the last “+”, the second one (`\S(.*?)\+`) uses a *lazy quantifier*, which tries to match while using the minimum number of repetitions possible. That one should and does stop at the first “+” (say the [spec](http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Regular-Expressions), and my console agrees).
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    2. COI used [This solution][1] help me solve my problem. So my project will be combination of RegEx and IndexOf() method. I don't know why RegEx failed on this matter. Thank you all. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4690617/javascript-to-match-substring-and-strip-everything-after-it
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