Regex ignore until colon

Question

Trying to ignore all characters until ":" then select everything until "}"

Having a hard time with it.

So basically the following:

.#{$fa-css-prefix}-500px:before { content: fa-content($fa-var-500px); }
.#{$fa-css-prefix}-accessible-icon:before { content: fa-content($fa-var-accessible-icon); }
.#{$fa-css-prefix}-accusoft:before { content: fa-content($fa-var-accusoft); }

needs to look like:

-500px
-accessible-icon
-accusoft

Have the following working partially here: https://regex101.com/r/QN8gl2/3

Any help would be appreciated.

Oops, that should be `\.[#]\{[$]fa\-css\-prefix\}(\-.*?):.*` to also include the dash. But if you check the regexp results, it shows Group 1 has what you're trying to match. Otherwise if you don't want to use groups, you're looking for a look-behind and look-ahead combination: `(?<=})-.*?(?=:)` note that JavaScript doesn't support lookbehinds. — Ultimater, Dec 12 '17 at 07:07

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '17 at 07:06

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\.#{[$]fa-css-prefix}-(.+?):

And you just need to get group 1!

Note that I used a lazy quantifier here since a greedy one will cause a lot of backtracking.

If you are not sure how to get group 1, refer to this.

Alternatively, you can use the substitution approach,

\.#{[$]fa-css-prefix}-(.+?):.+

Replace with

$1

Try it here: https://regex101.com/r/QN8gl2/5

answered Dec 12 '17 at 07:06

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so there is no way to do this without replace with? For instance if I wanted to do this with jquery, how will this work? Where would I insert '$1'? – webkitfanz Dec 12 '17 at 07:14
@webkitfanz As I said, you can get group 1 if you use the first regex. – Sweeper Dec 12 '17 at 07:15

Regex ignore until colon

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