regex - Vbscript Regular expression, find all between 2 known strings -

i select texts between 2 know strings. example following text

*starthere *general settings  *  text1 *  text2 *endhere 

i select texts between "*starthere" , "*endhere" using vbscript. final output looks following

 *general settings      *  text1     *  text2 

i know simpler using regex since there multiple instances of such pattern in file read.

i tried following

/(.*starthere\s+)(.*)(\s+*endhere.*)/ /(*starthere)(?:[^])*?(*endhere)/ 

but dont seem work , selects start , end strings together. lookforward , backword dont seem work either , iam not sure if have support vbscript.

this code using:

'create regular expression object  dim objregexp set objregexp = new regexp 'set our pattern objregexp.pattern = "/\*starthere\s+([\s\s]*?)\s+\*endhere\b/" objregexp.ignorecase = true objregexp.global = true  until objfile.atendofstream   strsearchstring = objfile.readline  dim objmatches  set objmatches = objregexp.execute(strsearchstring)  if objmatches.count > 0   out = out & objmatches(0) &vbcrlf   wscript.echo "found"  end if loop wscript.echo out objfile.close 

you can use:

/\bstarthere\s+([\s\s]*?)\s+endhere\b/ 

and grab captured group #1

([\s\s]*?) match text between these 2 tags including newlines.