Question

I want to get content between two comments in some file.

like a file x

#user code
alert("");
alert("");
#user code


{
 ===
====
}

#user code
alert("as");
alert("as");
#user code

i am using this regex pattern to match

final Pattern pat = Pattern.compile("//#User code\r?\n(.*)\r?\n//#User code" ,    Pattern.DOTALL);

but its matching from first #user code to end of the file.

pls help.

Answer 1

A quick fix is to use .*? instead of just .*. The ? changes the * into a non-greedy repetition, which will match up until the nearest #user code, instead of the furthest.