Need help with regex matching Topic is solved

[Killaz]

Hello. I have this code right here:

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Str := "The President: [Quiet: We do have economic problems]"
RegExMatch(Str, "^.*: \K.*", m)
MsgBox % m

What I basically need is to match all characters that come after the first ":", but for some reason Regex matches whatever comes after the second one.


Thanks. <3

[Ovg]

Why not use "(?<=:).*"

[jeeswg]

It just needed a ? to make it ungreedy:

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;before the first ':'
Str := "The President: [Quiet: We do have economic problems]"
RegExMatch(Str, "^.*?(?=:)", m)
MsgBox % m

;after the first ': '
Str := "The President: [Quiet: We do have economic problems]"
RegExMatch(Str, "^.*?: \K.*", m)
MsgBox % m
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