Re^2: Can't quite get this regex working

Generally where you are matching up to some expected character a negated character set is better than .*?. In this case ([^\[]*) would be appropriate.

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Re^3: Can't quite get this regex working by moritz (Cardinal) on Apr 08, 2011 at 11:41 UTC
Careful, when the delimiters are doubled, the file format might allow a single `]` or `[` on the inside, in which case the negated char class doesn't work. In that case you can use `(?s:(?!\]\]).)*` [download] Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Can't quite get this regex working by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 08, 2011 at 11:50 UTC
I much prefer: `/[^]](?:][^]]+)/` [download] which doesn't require any lookahead, backtracking or modifiers.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Can't quite get this regex working by ultranerds (Hermit) on Apr 08, 2011 at 11:37 UTC
Thanks, very good point - I'll have a play with that :) Cheers Andy	[reply]