regex : match string between two strings

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I have a string like this :

[01/09/2015 00:00:47]       INFO=54646486432154646 from=steve   idfrom=55516654455457       to=jone       idto=5552045646464 guid=100021623456461451463   n
um=6    text=hi my number is 0 811 22 1/12   status=new      survstatus=new

I want to extract the text field, the result should like this :

hi my number is 0 811 22 1/12

This is what I tried as regex :

text=(.*)status

And it gives me this :

hi my number is 0 811 22 1/12   status=new      survstatus=new

So it's not what I want, how can I get rid of two last fields?

Thanks.

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Toto · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-16 13:16:41Z

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I'd use:

\btext=(.*?)\bstatus=

in order avoid matching status in hi my status is 0

answered Sep 16, 2015 at 13:16

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hawarden_ · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-16 13:13:34Z

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So the answer is text=(.*?)status, thank @HamZa for the quick answer.

answered Sep 16, 2015 at 13:13

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Abdul Aziz Barkat · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-02 11:27:17Z

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It looks like your data is tab-delimited. If that is the case, this is probably better:

\ttext=([^\t*])

Which basically says, find a tab followed by 'text=' and then capture everything up until the next tab.

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answered Sep 16, 2015 at 13:20

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