difficulty parsing any amount of text between 2 tokens

[camergardi]

I'm trying to make a parser that will parse

[IGNORE]
comment
random stuff
[END]

with something like

    ignoreHeaderStart = "[IGNORE]"
    ignoreHeaderEnd = "[END]"
    matchAnyThing = REGEXP(".*") 
    ignoreSection = Sequence(ignoreHeaderStart, matchAnyThing, ignoreHeaderEnd)

but the only way I have been able to do it is by using a complicated regex because matchAnything is too greedy and consumes the last [END]. So the parser is always waiting for an [END] token.

is there a way to parse anything from a starting token to an end token that allows anything in the middle?

i'm not asking for a regex that will do what I want, I've found one but it is not very practical(i'm interested in other ones that would work just out of interest), but I think a built in pyleri function would be more suitable for the job

[joente]

@camergardi , there is no such pyleri function that will do the job, except for using Regex with a "complex" regular expression.

I leave the issue open as we might be able to make the Regex element "smarter" when followed by a token. When a Regex element is followed by a Token, it is quite obvious what a user expects the library to do so I'm pretty sure this could be implemented without breaking anything.