Regex get all characters between a character

Question

i have a text like this apple man <span field="apply to|1232sdsdf_nsdnfnln|Data" contenteditable="false"> open the door <span field="apply to|1232sds$df_nsdnfnln|Data" . i wrote a regex like this to get the items separated by | . but it takes only words. If there is characters like @$% .

This is the regex i'm using <span\\s+field="([\\w\\s]+)\\|(\\w+)\\|(\\w+)

Answer 1

Instead of specifying \\w+ , which only captures numbers, letters and the underscore , you could specify any amount of characters that aren't the character that ends the group by using a ^ , followed by the characters that won't match, within a [] :

<span\s+field="([^|]+)\|([^|]+)\|([^"]+)

So [^|]+ will match any at least one character that isn't | , and [^"]+ will match at least one character that isn't " .