regular expression in php: take the shortest match

Question

I\'m trying to do a PHP regular expression but i can\'t find the right way ...

Imagine I have this string: \"hello, my {{name is Peter}} and {{I want to eat chocolat

Answer 1

The PCRE functions a greedy by default. That means, that the engine always tries to match as much characters as possible. The solution is simple: Just tell him to act non-greedy with the U modifier

/{{(.+)}}/U

http://php.net/reference.pcre.pattern.modifiers