Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I’m building a project that needs to match a text that is inside : text to match -. For example, if I have this string:
nathanpc/ltweet: Asking a question at #StackOverflow: “Regular Expression To Match a Text Inside : -” – @devs
I want to match Asking a question at #StackOverflow: "Regular Expression To Match a Text Inside : -". Everything that is after the first : and the last -, but what is the correct regular expression to do this?
PS: I’m using Javascript with jQuery
If you’re using Perl-compatible regular expressions, like those found in most languages:
You might not need the slashes, depending on the language. The capture group 1 will get the content you want.
The
.*is a greedy matcher, so it will attempt to match as many characters as possible, up to the last dash in the input.