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Regex to capture everything between two characters

I am try to write a regex that will capture the values between two characters. The text input looks like this

From: http://www.loremIpsum/descpage-MRD19M7.html
To: http://www.loremIpsum.au/invisdescpage.html?PCODE=MRD19M7

I need it to Capture the MRD19M7 & MRD19M7

In the first case it will always be between - & .
and in the second case it will be between the = and white space char

So far I have this /-|=?[A-Z]\w+/g
But this Captures PCODE=MRD19M7 & -MRD19M7 from the other line

I have been using http://regexr.com/ to test.

Would appreciate any help on this

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Thank you, appreciate reply. Is there a reason that regex has a matched text and capture group 1? is there a way to have the matched text exclude the characters - and = or is this just how regex functions.

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Thanx 4 axxepting