How to use effectively use the lazy quantifier for regular expression?

Hi all,

I need to to set up a regular expression that stops at the first istance of the expression. To this goal, I am trying to use the lazy quantifier, unfortunately, with no success.

The input is '4223594459854' and the disidered output is {'4223594' '459854'}

Below you will find my code:

regexp('4223594459854','4.*4*?','match')

ans =

    '4223594459854'

Which it does not stop at the first 4. How can I solve this issue?

Thank you so much.

Best regards.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

regexp('4223594459854','4.*?4','match')

ans = 1×2 cell array
    {'4223594'}    {'459854'}

[Serbring]

Thank you. It works wonderfully.