From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T06:27:29+09:00
Subject: Re: My regexp stupidity needs assistance before loose all my hair!

Zach Dennis wrote:
> trans. (T. Onoma) wrote:
> 
>> Let me painfully honest: I hate parsing, especially w/ regexp, and I 
>> don't care if it's because I stupid and suck at it. It shouldn't have 
>> to be this hair pulling! Anyway... Can some one please give the 
>> regular expression to match the first square bracket's contents. In 
>> this case it would be "Hello".
>>
>> s = <<-EOS
>> [Hello]
>> This [b]is[b.] a test.
>> [Hello.]
>> EOS
> 
> 
> The trick here is to make sure you are non-greedy.
> 
> s =~ /\[([^\]]*)\]/

Almost forgot, $1 is the match you are looking for.

> Zach