Hello. I'm having some issues with regex and Im not sure it is even possible to solve this using regex. But I have no way around using regex at the moment.

Imagine the following piece of xml:

<xml>
<info>
<file>file:/path/to/some/file.mxf</file>
</info>
<info>
<file>file:/path/to/some/file.xml</file>
</info>
</xml>

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(Xml is linarized and does not contain newlines)

What I need to retrieve is the whole path to the xml file. The regex

file:(.*?\.xml)

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does not work, because it matches the very first occurence of the file: string. Is there any way to do this, make regex ignore all the file: strings that are not part of the tag that actually includes the path to the xml file?

This is driving me nuts. Thank you!

Update: Corrected regex and added additional information for clarity.

In reply to Regex match: Ignoring first occurences by cryion

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