Regex stop on certain character

Question

I have this regex

@(.*)\((.*)\)

And I'm trying to get two matches from this string

@YouTube('dqrtLyzNnn8') @Vimeo('124719070')

I need it to stop after the closing ), so I get two matches instead of one.

Thanks for that. I changed the question a little now. I want it to stop at the ending parenthesis istead of a HTML tag — user1184756, Apr 18 '15 at 09:34

Nir Alfasi · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-18T09:40:09.453

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Be lazy (?):

@(.*?)\((.*?)\)

edited Apr 18 '15 at 09:40

answered Apr 18 '15 at 09:37

Nir Alfasi

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '15 at 09:49

0

You may use a negated character class:

@([^()]+)\(([^()]+)\)

answered Apr 18 '15 at 09:49

Toto

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 18 '15 at 10:06

Your regex is trying to eat as much characters as possible. Look at the next regex:

echo "@YouTube('dqrtLyzNnn8') @Vimeo('124719070')" | 
   sed 's/@[a-zA-Z]*(\([^)]*\)[^@]*@[a-zA-Z]*(\([^)]*\).*/\1 \2/'

I do not know the exact requirements, you might me easier of starting with another command:

echo "@YouTube('dqrtLyzNnn8') @Vimeo('124719070')"  | cut -d\' -f2,4

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