Question

Currently I have this string:

"RED-CURRENT_FORD-something.something"

I need to capture the word between the hyphens. In this case the word CURRENT_FORD.

I have the following written:

\CURRENT_.*\B-\

Which returns CURRENT_FORD- which is wrong on two levels.

1. It implies that everything between hyphens starts with CURRENT.
2. It includes the hyphen at the end.

Is there a way to capture the words in between the hyphens without explicitly stating the first word?

Answer 1

You can use the delimiters to help bound your pattern then capture what you want with parentheses.

/-([^-]+)-/

You can then trim the hyphens off.