Re: regex - should be simple

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lit@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I want to capture everything up to the first semicolon, and
everything after.  Can't get it to work.  Tried

(.*);(.*)
(.*?);(.*)

and many variations.

Testing against the string "one;two;three"
should return a group "one" and subsequent group "two;three"

an expression that works would be much appreciated.

You need to restrict what's matched by the first group, then things should work. Like this:

  ([^;]*);(.*)


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