Regular expression to stop at first match

My regex pattern looks something like

<xxxx location="file path/level1/level2" xxxx some="xxx">

I am only interested in the part in quotes assigned to location. Shouldn't it be as easy as below without the greedy switch?

/.*location="(.*)".*/

Does not seem to work.

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You need to make your regular expression non-greedy, because by default, "(.*)" will match all of "file path/level1/level2" xxx some="xxx" .

Instead you can make your dot-star non-greedy, which will make it match as few characters as possible:

/location="(.*?)"/

Adding a ? on a quantifier ( ? , * or + ) makes it non-greedy.

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location="(.*)"将从“after location= ”之后匹配到“after some="xxx除非让它变得非贪婪，所以你需要.*? （即使它不贪婪）或者更好地替换.*与[^"]* 。

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How about

.*location="([^"]*)".*

This avoids the unlimited search with .* and will match exactly to the first quote.

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