I need to match a string in which the first wildcard is not seperated from the rest of the string by a space character.
(?<=<br> ).*?【.*?】 \(.*?\)<br>
For instance, of the following example...
<br> 一を知って二を知らず see only one side of a matter; have only a narrow understanding.<br> いつ１【一】 (itsu)<br>
... only this should be matched:
いつ１【一】 (itsu)<br>
Currently my regex matches everything after the first <br> , irregardless of distance to the brackets 【. (Keep in mind the brackets are one character.)
How do you convey that the wildcard should be 'joined' with the rest of the string?
Not sure I understand exactly whay you need, but based on your example pattern and example output you likely want this:
(?<=<br> )[^<]*?【[^】]*】 \([^\)]*\)<br>
Match:
いつ１【一】 (itsu)<br>
Explanation:
(?<=<br> ) - positive lookbehind[^<]*? - non-greedy scan over all non-< chars【[^】]*】 - scan over 【 ... 】 - space char\([^\)]*\) - scan over ( ... )<br> - match <br>