From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T04:27:18+09:00
Subject: not greedy enough

Honestly, I really dislike regular expressions. Some people love them for 
their terseness. I, on the other hand, being a pooh of very little brain, 
spend far too many hair pulling hours just trying to get one of the dang 
things right. Ugh.

Right now I'm working on this:

  /^[ ]*[-](.*\n)+.*\n/

Applied to:

  %Q{
    - xyz
    - abc

    - not this
  }

I want it to match just the first section, essentially 

  "    - xyz\n    - abc\n\n".

But it's matching the whole string. Can any of you Regexp experts fill me in?

Thanks,
T.