I have a querstion about simple regex. I need to get between of these characters: - and ~
My string: Champions tour - To Win1 - To Win2 ~JIM FURYK
When I use this: \-([^)]+\~) it is giving as matched this:
To Win1 - To Win2 ~
But I need this:
To Win2 ~JIM FURYK
Is it possible to this?
My regex is here: https://regex101.com/r/fJBLXb/1/
Just add \-([^-)]+\~) - dash to not match
You could use match as follows:
var input = "Champions tour - To Win1 - To Win2 ~JIM FURYK";
var output = input.match(/- ([^-]+~.*)$/)[1];
console.log(output);The regex pattern used above says to match:
- a hyphen
[ ] a single space
( capture what follows
[^-]+ match all content WITHOUT crossing another hyphen
~ ~
.* all remaining content
) stop capture
$ end of the string
Your \-([^)]+\~) regex matches the leftmost - that is directly followed with one or more chars other than ) (so it matches -, a, §, etc.) and then a ~ char. It does not stop at - chars and thus can match any amount of hyphens.
To match the value after last hyphen you can use
[^\s-][^-]*$
See the regex demo and the regex graph. Details:
[^\s-] - a char other than whitespace and -[^-]* - zero or more chars other than -$ - end of string.See the JavaScript demo:
const text = 'Champions tour - To Win1 - To Win2 ~JIM FURYK';
const match = text.match(/[^\s-][^-]*$/);
if (match) {
console.log(match[0]);
}