regex : match string between two strings

Question

I have a string like this :

[01/09/2015 00:00:47]       INFO=54646486432154646 from=steve   idfrom=55516654455457       to=jone       idto=5552045646464 guid=100021623456461451463   n
um=6    text=hi my number is 0 811 22 1/12   status=new      survstatus=new

I want to extract the text field, the result should like this :

hi my number is 0 811 22 1/12

This is what I tried as regex :

text=(.*)status

And it gives me this :

hi my number is 0 811 22 1/12   status=new      survstatus=new

So it's not what I want, how can I get rid of two last fields?

Thanks.

Use `.*?` instead of `.*`. [See greedy vs non-greedy](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3075130/difference-between-and-for-regex/3075532#3075532) — HamZa, Sep 16 '15 at 13:11
Does this answer your question? [RegEx: Smallest possible match or nongreedy match](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1919982/regex-smallest-possible-match-or-nongreedy-match) — Abdul Aziz Barkat, May 02 '23 at 11:29

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '15 at 13:16

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I'd use:

\btext=(.*?)\bstatus=

in order avoid matching status in hi my status is 0

answered Sep 16 '15 at 13:16

Toto

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Thanks for your answer, this is even better. – hawarden_ Sep 16 '15 at 15:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '15 at 13:13

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So the answer is text=(.*?)status, thank @HamZa for the quick answer.

answered Sep 16 '15 at 13:13

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 02 '23 at 11:27

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It looks like your data is tab-delimited. If that is the case, this is probably better:

\ttext=([^\t*])

Which basically says, find a tab followed by 'text=' and then capture everything up until the next tab.

edited May 02 '23 at 11:27

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answered Sep 16 '15 at 13:20

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regex : match string between two strings

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