I have data that looks like this:
<ID="user_one" event="open(2)"> <ID="user_one" event="system booted"> <ID="user_one" event="init(1m)">

I need a regex that will return whatever is in the quotes of the event="open(2)", but I need the matching to stop if it hits a parenthesis and not stop if it hits a space. Example return of the regex would be:

open system booted init
I don't need the stuff in the parenthesis. I have come up with this:
match =~ /event="(.+?)"/
I don't know how to get it to stop at the parenthesis but not stop if it hits a space.

In reply to Help with this simple regex by cspctec

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