How to turn a regex to non-greedy

Asked Jun 18 '21 at 17:22

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How to match any character up to the first occurrence of a pattern in a PCRE regex?

The following regex where I'm trying to turn on the non-greedy mode by adding a question mark after the +:

.+?(?=non)

applied to "Proin non urna non diam feugiat semper" matches "Proin non urna " instead of the desired output: "Proin ".

Thanks.

asked Jun 18 '21 at 17:22

Joe Catin

It works, see [your regex demo](https://regex101.com/r/PduwNn/2). You may add `^` at the start. – Wiktor Stribiżew Jun 18 '21 at 17:22
The `^` anchor did the trick; thanks! – Joe Catin Jun 18 '21 at 17:29
Well, no need of the anchor if you use the proper method/function that fetches only the first occurrence. – Wiktor Stribiżew Jun 18 '21 at 17:37

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