PHP正则表达式匹配第一次出现？

Question

http://someurlhere.com|http://sometexturl.com|sometexthere

i want to extract only the first url which is before the | , http://someurlhere.com

i have written regular expression

\bhttp(.*)\|\b

but its capture all the occurences of |

Thanx help is appreciated

Answer 1

No need for regex. I see you tagged it PHP.

$boom = explode('|', 'http://someurlhere.com|sometexturl.com|sometexthere');
$url = $boom[0];
echo $url;

Output:

http://someurlhere.com

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