How can I stop the regex at first match?

Question

I have a string which goes like this.

010002 D324Y56HY INTEREST 

010002 SAD21 INTEREST

I am trying to create two groups here with the regex (010002)[\s\S]\*INTEREST

But the regex matches last occurrence of INTEREST. I need it to stop the matching at the first occurrence and create another group with the next occurrences. Can someone guide me please?

Please find the link below.

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

What language programming you are using? Please, add the tag of it in your question. — Hamed Baziyad, Jan 12 '20 at 08:33
If I understand you right, you probably need to make the '*' quantifier ungreedy. In https://regex101.com/r/tXfBGf/1/, this means that you add a "U" (after "gm") in the "set regex options". See field containing the regular expressions: you have flags in the right part. — Pierre François, Jan 12 '20 at 08:53
@PierreFrançois Thank you so much! I wasn't sure how to make the regex ungreedy. Thank you :) — midhunsugathan, Jan 12 '20 at 10:25

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '20 at 08:50

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Try this:

/(010002)[\s\S]*?INTEREST/

(add question mark for shortest match)

answered Jan 12 '20 at 08:50

Anatoliy R

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This achieves the same result as `/(010002)[\s\S]*INTEREST/U` – Pierre François Jan 12 '20 at 09:00

How can I stop the regex at first match?

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