How to make Regex choose words separately

Question

So I have this string:

sockcooker!~shaz@Rizon-AC7BDF2F.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com !~shaz@ PRIVMSG #Rizon :ohai. New here. registered 10 mins ago, have not got an ema         


        

Answer 1

You want to use an ungreedy match. There are two ways (and python supports both). The latter is more flexible:

r"![^@]+"
r"!.+?@

The ? makes the .+ ungreedy, so it will stop at the first "@" instead of the last.