Question

I need some help creating a regular expression.
I need to get all the words between the first keyword and the last keyword.

Assume the first keyword is All and the last keyword is At.

Sample Input:

All abc abcd abcccc abdd At

The output must be:

abc abcd abccc abdd

This is my current regex right now:

(\\s*All (\\w|\\s)+( At))

My problem is that if ever the input is like this:

All abc abc abc abc abc At At

The output is:

abc abc abc abc abc At

Answer 1

Try non-greedy matching for the words in the middle:

(\s*All (\w|\s)+?( At))

Note the added ? sign. This should tell regex engine to return the shortest match for the (\w|\s)+ part, hopefully yielding the result you need.