Hi to everyone.
I guess this is a stupid newbie question, but still, it's driving me mad. I don't know much about regex and I've been googling around like crazy for the past two days.

Suppose I've a sentence like this one:  word1 is made of word2

and one that is like this one:  word1, which is an important thing because of its use and stuff, is made of word2.

I have to match (and extract) everything that is in between word1 and word2, but the sentence in between has to be no longer of 3 or 4 words, so the first one should match but the second one shouldn't. I've been playing around with regex, but have no idea on how making this work. Sorry for the crappy example but I'm italian and my real data are in Italian. Thanks to everyone who could help me!

In reply to Regex Problem by remluvr

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