[thelist] Regex help

[Billy Reisinger]

You could try tokenizing the string first with a string split....  
usually helps me out when I have complicated regular expressions like  
this.  Not sure what language you are using, but most I've  
encountered have a string split function that uses regular  
expressions or simple string matching.


On May 2, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Tab Alleman wrote:

> Been trying to figure this out, but I haven't found a way to do  
> what I want in any of the tutorials out there.
>
> Say I've got a string like this:
>
> any combination of characters + "START" + any combination of  
> characters except START + "START" + any combination of characters  
> except START + "END" + any combination...
>
>
>
> I want to create a regex that will grab the chunk of the string  
> between the SECOND "START" and the next "END".  The pattern I  
> created grabs from the FIRST "START" to the first "END":
>
> START.*?END
>
>
>
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