Regex Help

K!LL!@N

Hoping someone can help me out with a Regex problem.
I've never really gotten the hang of Regex properly and I'm a bit stuck on this.

I have some text that resembles this:

Here is some text that I need to change

I would like to extract the "[[would like|" part with a Regex.
So it's basically "[[" followed by some text stopped by "|".

I thought I had found the solution with this Regex: /\[\[.+?\]{0}\|/

However, it will match with "some text that I [[would like|" instead of "[[would like|".

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Hobbes

\[\[([^\]]*?)\|

- Match the character “[” literally «\[»
- Match the character “[” literally «\[»
- Match the regular expression below and capture its match 
   into backreference number 1 «([^\]]*?)»
   - Match any character that is NOT a “A ] character” «[^\]]*?»
      Between zero and unlimited times, as few times as possible, 
      expanding as needed (lazy) «*?»
- Match the character “|” literally «\|»

If you are doing any serious regex stuff I recommend regex buddy.

Now that I think of it, it may not match something like

another

K!LL!@N

Excellent, thanks for that!
I will check out Regex Buddy.
Thanks for the tip.

K!LL!@N

Hobbes wrote: »

Now that I think of it, it may not match something like

another

I don't think that will be a problem as I don't think that situation can arise.

NeverSayDie

Re regex tools, as a free alternative to Regex Buddy, I've found the Regex Coach very useful over the years. Probably not as powerful though, Regex Buddy does look pretty impressive.
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/