Turn on / off greed in clojure repeat patterns

Question

How to enable / disable greed in clojure repeat patterns?

(re-find #"(.+)-(.+)" "hello-world-you") => ["hello-world-you" "hello-world" "you"]

against

(re-find #"(.+)-(.+)" "hello-world-you") => ["hello-world-you" "hello" "world-you"]

Answer 1

?makes quantifiers such as +non-greedy. By default, they are greedy.

• Greedy: (.+)
• Unwanted: (.+?)

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By the way, this is just a direct, simple and accurate answer. @Fge's answer offers a better way to do this. Check it out for future expressions.

Answer 2

Do not use .+, use the extended character class: this avoids worries about greed in general.

You should use this as a regular expression ([^-]+)-([^-]+).

, . , , (([^-]+)), (-), () , , (([^-]+)).

, () , , , . ( ), .