Question

I am trying to read the properties file with keys including spaces.

For ex:

Parent File name = 'Mother.Older'
Child File name = 'Daughter.Younger'

I tried the regular expression ^.*= and it successfully reads the keys but it also reading the = sign.

Is there any better regular expression which reads the keys only until the = sign.

Link for my original problem

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

Try ^[^=]*. The ^ inside the [] means not, so [^=] matches any character except =.