Regex match pattern inside of existing match

Question

Not sure how to do this. Probably best illustrated with the following screen:

So I want the replaced text to read yo yo rather than yo.

That's both of the occurrences of {{.*}} rather than the large occurrence that wraps both of the search text.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could use a negated character class:

{{[^}]*}}

Answer 2

You've coded a greedy quantifier .*, which consumes as much as possible while still matching - ie it matches from the first {{ to the last }}.

You want a reluctant quantifier:

{{.*?}}

which matches as little as possible, while still matching - ie it will match from the first {{ to the next }}.