I'm using .NET to experiment with regex's.
I'm struggling to compose a regex to capture a segment in a string that ends with two spaces. For example
This is a test Start of next bit
How can I capture the first portion of the above string This is a test, knowing that the two segments are split by two spaces (\s in the regex world)?
I've tried stuff like:
This is a test[^\s{2}]
but that's getting me nowhere.
A more standard regex than the one that you have would be:
This.*?(?=\s{2})
It matches any character .*? until it encounters the first double \s (by the way, \s doesn't exactly mean 'space', it means any whitespace, including newlines, carriage returns, formfeeds, tabs).
Or you could try something a little different; match everything as long as they are single 'spaces':
This(?:\s\S+)*
Then again, it's simpler to split on the double space.
I found a solution via this SO question:
Regex to Exclude Double spaces
This((?!\s{2}).)*
Will match what I need.
Crazy stuff this regex malarky.
