Question

I’m trying find a subtstring of a string using regex. My string is:

<p><a class="twitter-share-button" RANDOM STUFF HERE </script>

I know there is no script tag in the random stuff so i made a regex that looks like this:

<p><a class="twitter-share-button"[^</script>]*

But the [^</script>] excludes all characters: <, /, s, c, r, i, p, t, >
How can i tell the regex to continue searching until it finds an occurrence of the closing script tag ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Depends on the engine, but you can do an ungreedy match:

<p><a class="twitter-share-button"(.*?)</script>

The ? makes the * ungreedy, so it will match everything up until the first </script>.