Question

Lets say i have this string §cHi there

I want to use regex to match §c so I can extract the message.
The way I want it to work is it looks for § and then match the next and the previous character.
So far I am able to match the next character by this expression [§].{1}.

My question is how to match the privious character which is Â.

Answer 1

First match .[§]., then take the first and third character of the match.

Note: your example regex [§].{1} is the same as [§].

. matches any character (sometimes with the exception of the newline character)