There is my regex
\[a:section(.*)\](.*)\[\/a:section\]
https://regex101.com/r/wtN6Rk/1
I wanna detect like this
Group1 : asasasas
Group2 : [a:widget type=blog][a:widget type=blog][a:widget type=blog]
But my regex code match wrong, How can I fix it?
Edit : If I don’t use "[" string in group2, It works what I want.
>Solution :
.* is greedy. It will matches any character, as many as possible.
Instead, you should better use .*?, which is the lazy alternative (matches any character as few as possible).
You can test the demo here.
Another option indicated by @Casimir et Hippolyte may be to replace the dot with a character class that excludes the closing square bracket, like that [^]]. It’s also faster (54 steps instead of 74).
You can test it here.