Find shortest matches between two strings

Question

I have a large log file, and I want to extract a multi-line string between two strings: start and end.

The following is sample from the

Answer 1

This regex should match what you want:

(start((?!start).)*?end)

Use re.findall method and single-line modifier re.S to get all the occurences in a multi-line string:

re.findall('(start((?!start).)*?end)', text, re.S)

See a test here.