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Rexgex Non-capturing group - still capturing?

tb5821
Communicator
rex field=title "(?titleNEW(.*?)(?:-))"

I have this rex command above but it still outputs the dash at the end which is in a non-capturing group- any help?

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tb5821
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Figured this out - by changing where the new field name paranthesie was...

rex field=title "(?<titleNEW>(.*?))(?:-)"

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tb5821
Communicator

Figured this out - by changing where the new field name paranthesie was...

rex field=title "(?<titleNEW>(.*?))(?:-)"

jotne
Builder

Not sure if you have an optimal regex.  Why do you make a non capturing group of "-" and why a capture group in the named group?  This is some better:

rex field=title "(?<titleNEW>.*?):-"

 Even better, do not use * in regex when its not needed.  Do a search until you find some that its not included, like this:

rex field=title "(?<titleNEW>[^-]+)"

 

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