How to get last ocurrence of a match in a string

Asked Jan 23 '21 at 18:57

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I have this string:

{text"{id1}"},{text"{id2}"}

I'm using this regex:

{.*"{id2}"},?

But I'm getting the whole string and what I want to get is only this:

{text"{id2}"}

And if I use use id1 in the regex I want to get:

{text"{id1}"}

How can I do this?

asked Jan 23 '21 at 18:57

user1306470

Use `{[^{}]*"{id2}"},?` – Wiktor Stribiżew Jan 23 '21 at 18:57
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When you have *delimited* strings, when you need to match something between two chars, always prefer negated character classes to `.*` or `.*?`, unless you know what you are doing. `.` matches virtually every char, and it often leads to issues like this. – Wiktor Stribiżew Jan 23 '21 at 19:12
Okay I see it now, many thanks again! – user1306470 Jan 23 '21 at 19:18

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