in reply to Greedy RegExp

You can also use negative lookahead to ensure that you don't have (for example) multiple src tags between the img and WantToGetRidOfThis.gif: 
/<img(?!.*src=.*src=WantToGetRidOfThis.gif).*?WantToGetRidOfThis.gif.+
+?>/

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Re: Re: Greedy RegExp
by fourmi (Scribe) on Mar 15, 2004 at 16:18 UTC
    negative lookahead. will need to read up about that one!
    cheers again!
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