java - Regex how to get everything apart from the first character -

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this string

username=john903?fullname=john&smith 

this regex far

=([^?]*) 

i trying capture "john903"

however returns "=john903"

javascript: (originally question tagged javascript)

the regex have captures value want, returns array. match without equal sign in second element of array:

var str = "username=john903?fullname=john&smith".match(/=([^?]*)/)[1]  //str "john903" 

java: (op commented in fact using java)

string line = "username=john903?fullname=john&smith"; pattern pattern = pattern.compile("=([^?]*)"); matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(line); system.out.println(matcher.group(1));