Regex: text between first occurrence of two patterns

Question

/url?q=http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(film)&sa=U&ei=iavVUKuFGsrNswbz74GQBA&ved=0CBYQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNEth5YspFPWp6CInyAfknlEvVgIfA

Answer 1

If your in python then sub(r'(\/url\?q\=)|[&][\S]*','',url) should do your work