My regex is matching too much. How do I make it stop? -
j0000000: transaction a0001401 started on 8/22/2008 9:49:29 j0000010: project name: e:\foo.pf j0000011: job name: mbiek direct mail test j0000100: machine name: dev j0000100: project file: e:\mbiek\foo.pf j0000100: template file: e:\mbiek\foot.xdt j0000100: job name: mbiek j0000100: output folder: e:\foo\a0001401 j0000100: temp folder: e:\foo\output\a0001401 j0000100: document 1 - starting document j0005000: document 1 - text overflowed on page 1 (warning) j0000101: document 1 - 1 page(s) composed j0000102: document 1 - 1 page(s) rendered @ 500 x 647 pixels j0000100: document 1 - completed j0000020: i have gigantic ugly string , i'm tring extract pieces using regex. in case, want grab after "project name" part says "j0000011:" (the 11 going different number every time). here's regex i've been playing with project name:\s+(.*)\s+j[0-9]{7}: the problem doesn't stop until hits j0000020: @ end. how make regex stop @ first o