From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-08-04T07:51:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-greediness in a regex - need some help verifying syn

I'm not exactly an expert on regexs, to say the least, but I  
think .*? always matches an empty string and is therefore useless. I  
would try something like

@bigstring.scan(/~\^LNK:[^\t\r\n]*[\t\r\n]+?[^\t\r\n]*\^~/m)

I have not test this.

Regards, Morton


On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:09 PM, Wes Gamble wrote:

> I realized I made an error when I did the original post.
>
> Now my problem is that it won't find any of these occurrences now.
>
> So @bigstring.scan(/~\^LNK:[\t\r\n]+?\^~/m) isn't returning anything.
> My guess is because there are no occurrences of a tab, newline, or  
> line
> feed character _immediately_ after ~^LNK.
>
> If I do /~\^LNK:.*?[\t\r\n]+?.*?\^~/m - that should pick up what I  
> want,
> correct?
>
> Wes
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