From: Jon Lim <snowblink@...>
Date: 2005-11-22T02:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expressions and Ruby

By default, matchines are greedy. Greedy matching means that it will
try to match the maximum number of characters possible. Perhaps you
want non-greedy matching?

/(...)+?/i

On 21/11/05, George Lunsford <george.lunsford@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right, but technically, say for "prese" that string is periodic, and should
> be matched as [p][re][se] but it's not getting that last e.
>
> On 11/21/05, Jon Lim <snowblink@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is matching [pr] and [es]

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