From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2004-09-23T04:55:47+09:00
Subject: Re: not greedy enough

trans. (T. Onoma) schrieb:
> 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?

The repeating group in your regexp is (.*\n)+ and this matches every line. You 
have to enlarge this group as in /^( *-.*\n)+.*\n/

HTH

Pit