RegularExpression Question

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Is there a character that will end the match once the criteria of the pattern is met and start a new match?

I'm having an issue where if I put two identical matching strings next to each other, they get matched as one.

 

[qbert220]

It sounds like you want a non-greedy match. Regexps are usually greedy by default. This means they will try to match as much as possible. A non-greedy regular expression will match as little as possible.

Put a question mark ("?") after the end of the expression to make it non-greedy.

Examples:

string "abxcdx", regexp ".*x" matches "abxcdx".
string "abxcdx", regexp ".*?x" matches "abx" and "cdx".