Question

I have a sentence:

“This ‘is’ just an example”

I need to cut the word between first ‘ ‘ characters.

Up until now, I was using following Regex method:

string name_only = Regex.Match("This 'is' just an example", @"\'([^)]*)\'").Groups[1].Value;

Result: is

and it worked perfectly fine, until another ‘ appeared:

“This ‘is’ just an e’xample”

now I’m getting:

Result: is’ just an e

how do I fix this issue (other than iterating using the “for” cycle and finding first two inexes of character ‘ and then cutting the word using the substring) ?

Answer 1

The problem is that your regex acts in a greedy way and if you change it to the following it will work:

@"\'([^)]*?)\'"