From: "Marcin Mielżyński" <lopexx@...>
Date: 2006-02-13T03:08:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Cutting a piece of text

James Edward Gray II wrote:

>  >> "<lyrics artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX> Lalalalala 
> </lyrics>".sub(/<(\w+)[^>]+>/, "<\\1>")
> => "<lyrics> Lalalalala </lyrics>"

reluctant would a bit faster:

p "<lyrics artist=XXX album=XXX title=XXX> Lalalalala 
</lyrics>".gsub(/<(\w+).*?>/, "<\\1>")


lopex