regexp - what am i missing???

[Jan Erik Moström]

I want to a simple search on a text like this

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<img src="uploads/2019/03eaa90fb4.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt=""
/> lkhlkhl

<img src="uploads/2019/03eaa90fb4.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt=""
/>

<img src="uploads/2019/03eaa90fb4.jpg" width="600" height="600" alt=""
/> <img src="uploads/2019/03eaa90fb4.jpg" width="600" height="600"
alt="" />

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where I want to pick out the file paths, in other words four matches.

I first wrote this expression "<img src="(.*)".+?/>" but it matches both
items on the last lines (I don't understand why). I changed it to "<img
src="(.*)"[^>]+/>" but with the same result.

What am missing?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Jan,

both <img src="(.*)".+?/> and <img src="(.*)"[^>]+/> have a "(.*)" that matches the longest string, ie from the first " in the line to the last " in the line.

What you want is something like this: <img src="([^\"]*)".+?/>

Jean-Christophe 

Jean-Christophe Helary
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[Jan Erik Moström]

On 12 May 2019, at 14:44, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

> first " in the line to the last " in the line.

Sigh, I was staring blindly at the last part ... thanks

= jem