"Shortest Match" in Regex Tester Does Not Return the Shortest Match

[Cyrix]

"Shortest Match" in Regex Tester Does Not Return the Shortest Match

There are often shorter match within the returned text.

 

[nicanil]

Try to test your regex, for example, here - http://regexstorm.net/tester
To see if the problem is in Regex tester.

 

[Cyrix]

For example, for
<span class=""><span class="">ABC USD
I want to find the shortest match between ">" and "USD", the correct match should be ABC , but Regex Tester wrongly generated a Regex which returns
<span class="">ABC

 

[VladZen]

For example, for
<span class=""><span class="">ABC USD
I want to find the shortest match between ">" and "USD", the correct match should be ABC , but Regex Tester wrongly generated a Regex which returns
<span class="">ABC


Посмотреть вложение 84750

Shortest match works from what searched text begin with, not from what goes before searched text
You should specify what searched text begin with
for example - (?<=>)\w.*?(?=USD)

 

[Cyrix]

The regex formula you provided was not what Regex Tester generated (which produced a wrong result), even when "begin with" was used.