From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-04-01T06:10:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex parsing question

* Paul Hanchett (Mar 31, 2005 23:00):
> 	text= "AA<X>BB<X>CC</X>DD</X>EE"
> 	regex = %r{(.*)<X>(.*)}

use

        regex = %r{(.*?)<X>(.*)}

The .* will match the first <X> and will only relinquish the second so
that an overall match can be made (for the <X>-part of the regex),
        nikolai

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