Capture data into space, regex

Question

I am using this regular expression to capture data between asterisks:

\*(.+)\*

however it miscaptures when the text is filled with asterisks, for example in:

oi pessoas *lindas* e pessoas *lindos* 

she understands only the most external asterisks capturing all the lindas* e pessoas *lindos being that it was to capture only lindas and lindos separately.

Is there any way to adapt it so that it picks up separately? Using some space condition or something..?

Answer 1

you can use the \w+ to indicate that there are only letters between the asterisks:

the expression: \*(\w+)\*

see working on Regex101