From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T04:36:17+09:00
Subject: Re: not greedy enough

Hi --

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:

> 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?

I think what you want is:  match one or more consecutive occurrences
of <space>-<stuff>\n, stopping when one of them has an extra \n at the
end.

Try this and see if it's close to what you need:

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


David

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David A. Black
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