Look at the second paragraph, I think it has what you are looking for.
http://www.regular-expressions.info/
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Subject: RegEx question
This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match everything up
to a character not including that character with regex? For example:
person@email.tld => person
me@here.com => me
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