Regular expression to replace shortest match

Question

my string is like this sfdfdsfdsfstart112matlab2336endgfdgdfgkknfkgstart558899enddfdsfd

how can we replace part of a string such a way that the result will be

sfdfdsfdsfgfdgdfgkknfkgdfdsfd

i.e bolded content need to be removed.

Answer 1

You need to use non-greedy matching:

start.*?end