Hello All, For my input I've got a set of characters each surrounded by semicolons ';'. I'm trying to find one specific letter in the input and take out any information in between the semicolons. It sounds easy but it has stumped me for a day and a half. I've looked into Look-aheads, Look-behinds, anchor points but it seems as if whatever case I use all the criteria isn't met in my regex expression. I could use some help. Here are some examples I've used so far:

/\;(.*?W.*?)\;/

Output:
Letter to find=W
Example Input=;A-B;C-D;E-F;G-H;J-K;L-M;N-P;R-S;T-W;Y-Z;
RegExResult=A-B;C-D;E-F;G-H;J-K;L-M;N-P;R-S;T-W
Issue: Finds the very first semicolon in the whole string
Desired Result: T-W

 /\;(.*?L.*?)\;/

Output:
Letter to find=L
Example Input=;A-B-C-D;E-F-G-H;J-K-L-M;N-P-R-S;T-W-Y-Z;
RegExResult=A-B-C-D;E-F-G-H;J-K-L-M
Issue: Finds the very first semicolon in the whole string
Desired Result: J-K-L-M

 /\;(.*?B.*?)\;/

Output:
Letter to find=B
Example Input=;A-B;C-D;E-F;G-H;J-K;L-M;N-P;R-S;T-W;Y-Z;
RegExResult=A-B
Issue: No issue, works in this case since its at the beginning of the string
Desired Result: A-B

In reply to Regular Expressions-Finding info between semicolons by adrianm96

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