From: Arowana Lin <priceagle@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T20:26:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How to grep the shortly matching in a string

Robert Retzbach wrote:
> 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!
>>
>>  
>>
> 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 :>

Thanks Robert!
here is the example.
<tr><td>Format</td></tr><tr><td>Format2</td></tr><tr><td>Format3</td></tr>
I use the code below to fetch "Format" and "Format2" in the table
feature=content.scan(/[<tr><td>([\w\s])*<\/td><\/tr>/)
I want to get each row into array feature,like 
feature[0]=Format;feature[1]=Format2...
but it match all the row into 
feature[0]=Format</td></tr><tr><td>Format2</td></tr><tr><td>Format3


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