How to get regular expression to stop at first occurrence and then start searching from there, leading to multiple results

Question

I have a regular expression to search for complete h1 tags (from start of <h1> to end of </h1>) in a content but it searches for the whole content

Regular expression

<h1.*<\/h1>

Content to search for

<h1 style=""></h1><span> alsjd alkj dalsd a</span><h1>asdsadsa</h1>

The result is one match only from first occurrence of starting h1 to last occurrence of ending h1. It matches the whole content.

I want it to give me 2 occurrence of starting and ending h1 tags like the result should be

<h1 style=""></h1> and 
<h1>asdsadsa</h1>

You should specify the context, which parser are you using? From what you describe it seems the case of greedy matching (maximal munch), try `?` for lazy matching [reference](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/quantifiers-in-regular-expressions?redirectedfrom=MSDN) — Jiraiya, Jun 22 '23 at 05:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '23 at 05:52

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I think you've to make .* non greedy

use this

<h1.*?<\/h1>

answered Jun 22 '23 at 05:52

rawat0419

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How to get regular expression to stop at first occurrence and then start searching from there, leading to multiple results

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