How to non-greedy multiple lookbehind matches

Question

Source:    
Engine:    PCRE

RegEx1:    (?<=)(.*)(?=

        

Answer 1

Put something greedy in front of it?

(?:.*)(?<=<prefix>)(.*)(?=<suffix2>)

Since the greedy (?:.*) will gobble as much as it can, only the minimum will be matched by the rest of the pattern - effectively making the rest non-greedy.

The non-greedy .*? might also work:

(?<=<prefix>)(.*?)(?=<suffix2>)

Answer 2

I just had the same problem. But in my case it was

(?<=<prefix>)(?:.(?!<prefix>))*(?=<suffix>)

That did what I wanted.

This expression will match anything that is a concatenation of characters between <prefix> and <suffix> and doesn't contain the substring <prefix>. (I think so. I'm not very good at regexp.)

Answer 3

I suggest you use:

(?<=<prefix>)(((?!<prefix>).)*)(?=<suffix2>)

This makes sure that there can be no <prefix> inside the match. The complete match result will be <content2>