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Asked: 2026-05-17T21:36:43+00:00

I am using vbscript regex to find self-defined tags within a file. \[\$[\s,\S]*\$\] Unfortunately,

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I am using vbscript regex to find self-defined tags within a file.

"\[\$[\s,\S]*\$\]"

Unfortunately, I am doing something wrong, so it will grab all of the text between two different tags. I know this is caused by not excluding “$]” between the pre and post tag, but I can’t seem to find the right way to fix this. For example:

[$String1$]
useless text
[$String2$]

returns

[$String1$]
useless text
[$String2$]

as one match.

I want to get

[$String1$]
[$String2$]

as two different matches.

Any help is appreciated.

Wade

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  1. Editorial Team

    The RegEx is greedy and will try to match as much as it can in one go.

    For this kind of matching where you have a specific format, instead of matching everything until the closing tag, try matching NOT CLOSING TAG until closing tag. This will prevent the match from jumping to the end.

    "\[\$[^\$]*\$\]"
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