Do not get the first, but the second match in the string

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For this string

Some AB, Author C., Names DEF. The title string. T journal name 2018;10:560-564

I would like to get just the authors. So I tried to split for . (dot and space).

But using the regex /^(.*)(?:\.\s).*/ doesn't match for my expected Some AB, Author C., Names DEF, instead I do get also the title as my first match.

I don't understand why. Maybe someone can explain what I'm doing wrong.

https://regex101.com/r/HLBmbf/1

An alternative regex with a lazy quantifier that would also capture that: `^(?:.*?,){2}[^,.]+` — LukStorms, Jun 22 '18 at 16:52

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '18 at 16:37

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This will capture what you're looking for.

^(.*)(?:\.\s.*\.\s).*

Basically you were not capturing the last \.\s only, when you needed to not capture the last 2 instances of that.

answered Jun 22 '18 at 16:37

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Do not get the first, but the second match in the string

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