Regex find sting in the middle of two strings

Question

I want to get the time in the following line. I want to get the string

2017-07-07 08:30:00.065156

in

[ID] = 0,[Time] =  2017-07-07 08:30:00.065156,[access]

I tried this

 (?<=[Time] = )(.*?)(?=,)

Where i want to get the string in-between the time tag and the first comma but this doesn't work.

What regex flavour is it? Maybe it doesn't support lookarounds. Can you retrieve the content from specific capturing groups? — Aaron, Jul 18 '17 at 15:54
Yes, what programming language are you using? Add it's tag to your post. — Jeff Holt, Jul 18 '17 at 15:54
`(?<=\[Time] = )([^,]+)` should also work and will be more efficient. — anubhava, Jul 18 '17 at 15:55
There's also two spaces after the `=`. It shouldn't cause your regex to fail, but you may have to trim the regex results. — Joseph Marikle, Jul 18 '17 at 15:56

Sergey Kalinichenko · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-18T16:08:52.717

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[Time] inside a regex means a T, an i, an m, or an e, unless you escape your square brackets.

You can drop the reluctant quantifier if you use [^,]* in place of .*:

(?<=\[Time\] = )([^,]*)(?=,)

edited Jul 18 '17 at 16:08

answered Jul 18 '17 at 15:56

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