RegEx find string between lookbehind and lookahead-CodePudding

so I have this example string out of a html mail given:

Abholstellenname (Firmenname, Details): Musterfirma GmbH<br>

I'm using the following expression to find the company name, in this case Musterfirma GmbH:

(?<=Abholstellenname \(Firmenname, Details\): ).*

But I need to exclude the   tag following the company name. How can I achieve this?

I would not ask here if I haven't read through the tutorials and still didn't get it.

CodePudding user response：

You can use

(?<=Abholstellenname \(Firmenname, Details\): ).*?(?=<br>|$)

The main idea is to turn the .* part into a .*?(?= |$) pattern that matches any zero or more chars other than line break chars as few as possible followed with either   or end of string.

See the regex demo.

If the spaces can be any whitespace chars, replace the literal spaces in the pattern with \s.

CodePudding user response：

You would need to escape spaces with \s and escape parenthesis with $ and $

[^ ] matches any char other than <, >, b and r. This could work for your   but if you have anything after that, it will be captured again.

(?<=Abholstellenname\s\(Firmenname,\sDetails\):\s).*[^<br>]