Regex not stopping at first space

Question

Trying to create a pattern that matches an opening bracket and gets everything between it and the next space it encounters. I thought \\[.*\\s would achieve th

Answer 1

\[[^\s]*\s

The .* is a greedy, and will eat everything, including spaces, until the last whitespace character. If you replace it with \S* or [^\s]*, it will match only a chunk of zero or more characters other than whitespace.

Masking the opening bracket might be needed. If you negate the \s with ^\s, the expression should eat everything except spaces, and then a space, which means up to the first space.