How to match everything up to the second occurrence of a character?

Question

So my string looks like this:

Basic information, advanced information, super information, no information 

I would like to capture everything up to second comma so I get:

Basic information, advanced information 

What would be the regex for that?

I tried: (.*,.*), but I get

Basic information, advanced information, super information, 

Answer 1

This will capture up to but not including the second comma:

[^,]*,[^,]* 

English translation:

• [^,]* = as many non-comma characters as possible

• , = a comma

• [^,]* = as many non-comma characters as possible

[...] is a character class. [abc] means "a or b or c", and [^abc] means anything but a or b or c.

Answer 2

You could try ^(.*?,.*?), The problem is that .* is greedy and matches maximum amount of characters. The ? behind * changes the behaviour to non-greedy.

You could also put the parenthesis around each .*? segment to capture the strings separately if you want.