Re^4: A NOT in regular expressions (thanks)

The first one fails by not stopping soon enough for "<% %%> %>". The second fails by not matching "<% %% %>".

Thanks for the thoughts.

- tye

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Re: Re^4: A NOT in regular expressions (thanks) by idsfa (Vicar) on Nov 02, 2003 at 00:04 UTC
Cribbing from Mastering Regular Expressions' section on removing C-style quotes ... `qr{ <% [^%]* %+ ( [^>%] [^%]* %+ )* > }x;` [download] appears to properly handle every example in this thread, as well as not taking forever on a failed match. Read more... (1162 Bytes) Remember, when you stare long into the abyss, you could have been home eating ice cream.	[reply] [d/l] [select]