Regular Expression to find a string included between two characters while EXCLUDING the delimiters

Question

I need to extract from a string a set of characters which are included between two delimiters, without returning the delimiters themselves.

A simple example should b

Answer 1

You just need to 'capture' the bit between the brackets.

\[(.*?)\]

To capture you put it inside parentheses. You do not say which language this is using. In Perl for example, you would access this using the $1 variable.

my $string ='This is the match [more or less]';
$string =~ /\[(.*?)\]/;
print "match:$1\n";

Other languages will have different mechanisms. C#, for example, uses the Match collection class, I believe.