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I am building a project which users should be able to generate links easily by putting: #this is the link#. And i am trying to catch strings in between 2 # symbols with regex. I have tried,
#.+#
it works perfectly if only 1 link in users string, but if there are more than 1 links like,
#asdfasdf asdf# asdf asfasdfasdf asd fasd fasdf #asdfasdf asdfasdf asdf asdf#
it catches the whole string. But i need them separately, so i can substitute them with tags.
This is called “greedy regex”. By default regular expression matches the longest string possible. You can make it non-greedy this way:
Demo: http://rubular.com/r/7WWyaUApFt