php - How to get the shortest rather than longest possible regex match with preg_match()

Question

I have string similar to this one:

{{something1}} something2 {{something3}} something4

How can I match only "something1" using the preg_match() function?

I tried:

preg_match("/{{(.*)}}/si",$content,$matches);

but this matched too much, returning

something1}} something2 {{something3

I tried adding to the pattern, but didn't get what I want that way either.

Could you please help me with this?

Answer 1

Use non greedy modifier ? :

preg_match("/{{(.*?)}}/si",$content,$matches);
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