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in reply to matching any string except a regex

Maybe you could simply add a .* at the beginning of your pattern: 

  s/(.*\{\{GHGbible-ref...
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This would gobble up everything upto the last {{...}} thingy before the 4:5, so you'd capture 'Ru' instead of the 'Gn' from the first {{...}}.

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Re^2: matching any string except a regex
by amir_e_a (Hermit) on Mar 04, 2010 at 15:04 UTC

    Thanks a lot! It seems to do what i need.

    If you have friends who study college-level Hebrew, they probably know Gesenius. Now you can tell them that you contributed to the improvement of its online version.

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