regex match between characters

Question

the strings are like

/fruit] 

/animal/lion

/plant/flower/rose

and i want to get only first word without slash and blacket which means fruit, animal, plant.

I did until [^\/]*[az] * but i have no idea what is next step. can somebody help me?

Thanks

Answer 1

In Splunk, this should do it.

... | rex field=foo "(?<word>\w+)" | ...

Answer 2

String before = "...";
String after = before.replaceAll("[/](\w+).*", "$1");

And you can use "after".

(Java solution)