I'm trying to find multiple matches in a specific position in text.
For example, in the following text, I want to find all a=.*; between abcd and xyz
abcd
a=1;
some text
a=2; some text
b=3;
a=4;
xyz
a=5;
a=6;
So it should only match:
a=1;
a=2;
a=4;
and don't match:
a=5;
a=6;
So far I tried the following regex:
(?<=abcd\n)(.*)(?=\nxyz)
which returns the string between 'abcd' and 'xyz' ,but I don't succeed to match all a=.*; inside
Use
(?<=abcd[\s\S]*)a=.*;(?=[\s\S]*xyz)
See JS regex proof.
EXPLANATION
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(?<= look behind to see if there is:
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abcd 'abcd'
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[\s\S]* any character of: whitespace (\n, \r,
\t, \f, and " "), non-whitespace (all
but \n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (0 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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) end of look-behind
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a= 'a='
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.* any character except \n (0 or more times
(matching the most amount possible))
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; ';'
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(?= look ahead to see if there is:
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[\s\S]* any character of: whitespace (\n, \r,
\t, \f, and " "), non-whitespace (all
but \n, \r, \t, \f, and " ") (0 or more
times (matching the most amount
possible))
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xyz 'xyz'
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) end of look-ahead