From: Robert Retzbach <rretzbach@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T19:58:40+09:00
Subject: Re: How to grep the shortly matching in a string

Arowana Lin schrieb:

>I used regular expression to grep content from a web page,but it seems 
>ruby always match the longest string,but I need to fetch the shortly 
>matching. How can I do ?
>Thanks for help!
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Would be nice to see the regexp. Maybe using non-greedy multipliers will do.
You could also use character classes like [^<>] to match chars between < 
and >.
But I don't know what you want to match, so please show me :>