Regex, select closest match

Question

Assume the following word sequence

BLA text text text  text text text BLA text text text text LOOK text text text BLA text text BLA

What I

Answer 1

simply find text between LOOK and BLA without BLA

In : re.search(r'BLA [^(BLA)]+ LOOK', 'BLA text text text  text text text BLA text text text text LOOK text text text BLA text text BLA').group()
Out: 'BLA text text text text LOOK'

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