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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:53:50+00:00

I have this regex: {link=([^|{}]+)|([^|{}]+)|([^|{}]+)} this works great and returns me three groups between

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I have this regex:

{link=([^|{}]+)|([^|{}]+)|([^|{}]+)}

this works great and returns me three groups between the pipe symbols, ie. this, that and blah from {link=this|that|blah}. As long as the text contains no pipe, or two curly braces (as they are reserved words in my tag builder.)

However I am still getting a match if I am testing the string ‘fsdjklrwenklw’ or anything for that matter, I think it’s because it doesn’t care if “{link=” matches or not, as any string will then be matched in the very first back reference.

Probably terribly written, could somebody help me out?
I must only get back references for strings that start with “{link=” and end with “}“.

PS. I have tried the simple prefix and suffix of \A \z, this does not help.

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to escape the | characters.

    Your regex is being parsed as {link=([^|{}]+) | ([^|{}]+) | ([^|{}]+)}.
    The | characters mean ‘or’, so it matches either the first part or the second part o the first part.

    You need to write {link=([^|{}]+)\|([^|{}]+)\|([^|{}]+)}.

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