Re: Non-greedy regex behaves greedily

Yes, the left hand side (except for the last closing bracket)

<body.+?
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is finding out to

<body>
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and then continuing out till it hits the next closing bracket. Problem is + finds AT LEAST one character. You want the star * here:

s/<body.*?>/<body class="theBody">/is
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* finds 0 or more characters. That should solve it! :)

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Re^2: Non-greedy regex behaves greedily by fourmi (Scribe) on Nov 11, 2004 at 13:56 UTC
indeedy, thanks a lot	[reply]