RegEx to select everything between two characters?

Question

Hi there, I am trying to write a regex that selects everything between two characters.

For example, when the regex encounters a '§' I want it to select everything after the '§' sign, up until the point that the regex encounters a ';'. I tried with a lookbehind and lookahead, but they don't really do the trick.

So for example " § 1-2 bla; " should return " 1-2 bla".

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

For a simple case this should do:

§(.*);

It might need to be modified if you don't want to allow nesting:

§(.*?);

Answer 2

Use this regex

(?<=§).*?(?=;)

Answer 3

How about

"§([^;]*);"

The selected characters between the § and ; are available as match group 1.