Re: Greedy RegExp

Can you exclude angle brackets from your wildcards? That should prevent crossing tag boundaries.

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Re: Re: Greedy RegExp by fourmi (Scribe) on Mar 15, 2004 at 16:15 UTC
Nail on the head. Thanks. Had wondered if there was an antigreedifier like .+? but this does the job brilliantly. soemtime i wish i didn't think so hard! cheers ant	[reply]
Re: Greedy RegExp by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 15, 2004 at 16:26 UTC
Had wondered if there was an antigreedifier like .+? Oh, there is. And it's spelled `.+?`. But greedy or lazy (aka 'antigreedy'), still has to yield to more important rules like finding the left-most match. Abigail	[reply]