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I have a cases where I need to extract anything in between multiple hyphens together. For example

------- General Data ------------------------------------------------------------
O/p: General Data

------- Protocol and Sequence Data ----------------------------------------------

O/p: Protocol and Sequence Data

------- Start Check Data - (before measurement - may be cached data) ------------

o/p: Start Check Data - (before measurement - may be cached data)

I have used this particular regex to try and achieve it

(?<=-)[^-]+(?=)

but this regex is able to get the first 2 cases correctly but not the 3rd case example. It matches the 3rd case but it only displays, for example for

------- Start Check Data - (before measurement - may be cached data) ------------
it gives o/p Start Check Data instead of the whole thing
Arpan Sarkar
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  • Possible duplicate (a better suggestion is welcomed): [Regex Match all characters between two strings](https://stackoverflow.com/q/6109882). TLDR: [`^-+\s*(.+?)\s*-+$`](https://regex101.com/r/4R0dO3/2). – InSync Jun 28 '23 at 07:47

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Assuming a space will always appear before and after a series of hyphens and dealing with the match's length of a lookbehind that must be fixed, here is a possible regex:

(?<=-- ).+(?= -{2,})

lookbehind for 2 hyphens and a space :

(?<=-- )

match everything in a greedy way :

.+

(switch to lazy match if needed by adding a '?') :

.+?

lookahead for a space followed by at least 2 hyphens :

(?= -{2,})
Vincent Flotron
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