Non-greedy match is still too greedy

Question

I have a regex pattern that needs to capture the shortest matches, but the lazy match isn\'t working in cases where that pattern is nested. Here\'s what I mean:

Regex pa

Answer 1

Well, problem is that .* matches everything. if you want just to match content between {{ and }}, you can try following regex:

\{{2}[^\{]*?\}{2}

See demo at regex101

Answer 2

Try: {{[^{]*?}} This is using the fact that the '{' character should not appear in the inner strings. It does match what you expect.