Search string which allows wildcard (*) at beginning and or end, but not in between. Search string itself allows almost any character but *

Date January 5, 2016 Match

Matches a valid C++ R-String literal, e.g. R"==(some literal text)=="

The aim of this regex is to extract only the Nth field from a delimited string. In the example provided the delimited is the pipe character. You will have to substitute the pipe character for whatever delimiter you are using.