I have the following in a $Var 
<!--ReallyGreedy-->
<!--LessGreedy-->
<b>Lots and lots of html markup that isn't really releveant </b>
<img src=WantToKeepThis.gif>
<b>More html markup that isn't really releveant </b>
<img id=Changeable src=WantToGetRidOfThis.gif width=AlsoChangeable>
<!--LessGreedy-->
<b>Even more html markup that isn't really releveant </b>
<img src=WantToKeepThisToo.gif>
<!--ReallyGreedy-->

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I have a series of gifs (lets say three) across a couple of hundred web pages, and i want to get rid of the central one, which has variable markup in the img tag (but does always contain 'blah.gif', variable markup wrt attributes etc).

I have avoided the ReallyGreedy regexp /<img.*WantToGetRidOfThis.gif.*>/ by using .+?

/<img.+?WantToGetRidOfThis.gif.+?>/ but it still matches from the very first instance of img (LessGreedy), so it's like 'backwardly greedy!'
How do i set up a regexp so that it does the equivelent of finding WantToGetRidOfThis.gif and then gorwing outward ungreedily until "<img" is found on the left, and ">" on the right?

Cheers
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In reply to Greedy RegExp by fourmi

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