JAVA regex struggle

Question

I have Sample Text like these lines:

onmouseover="show(someText, some 1234, 'word')" height="60" onClick="do(1)">&nbsp;
onmouseover="show(someText, some 1234, 'word')">&nbsp;

I'm using java.util.regex.. My regex looks like this (unescaped):

(?<=over\=\"show\()(.*)(?=\)\")

I want to match only the characters between the braces but for the first line in sample text it matches everything until the last brace:

someText, some 1234, 'word')" height="60" onClick="do(1

I have read something about lazyness and possessive quantifiers and tried several approaches but I could'nt get it to work.

How do I have to design the suffix?

Its not a duplicate of the link in above comment cause I'm asking for JAVA regex — omnomnom, Dec 11 '17 at 09:20

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '17 at 09:10

-1

here is the solution

(?<=over\=\"show\()(.*?)(?=\)\")

you have to put a ? behind your .* to make it fetch lazy (not eager)

answered Dec 11 '17 at 09:10

Ivonet

Amazingly fast answer. Thank You. I tried it with `?` but in the suffix group. – omnomnom Dec 11 '17 at 09:13

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