Regular Expression Match between occurrence of character

Question

I have the following string:

3#White House, District Of Columbia, United States#US#USDC#DC001#38.8951#-77.0364#531871#382

as you can see, the s

Answer 1

You may use a regex like ^(?:[^#]*#){N}([^#]*) where N is the number of your required substring minus 1. To get US, which is the third value, you may use

^(?:[^#]*#){2}([^#]*)

See the regex demo

Details

• ^ - start of string
• (?:[^#]*#){2} - two sequences of
  • [^#]* - any zero or more chars other than #
  • # - a # char
• ([^#]*) - Capturing group 1: any zero or more chars other than #.