regular expression in php: take the shortest match

Question

I\'m trying to do a PHP regular expression but i can\'t find the right way ...

Imagine I have this string: \"hello, my {{name is Peter}} and {{I want to eat chocolat

Answer 1

Use

"/{{(.*?)}}/"

The expression ".*" is greedy, taking as many characters as possible. If you use ".*?" is takes as little characters as possible, that is it stops at the first set of closing brackets.