From: Dave Rose <bitdoger2@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T01:35:30+09:00
Subject: too greedy of a regexp

i have a regexp: /(^BillHead(.*))(^Bill_End(.*))/m that's too greedy for 
processing
a billing extract file containing:
BillHead...<<<much information here>>\n
<<one or more detail lines here\n>>
Bill_End...<<<much information here>>\n
BillHead...<<<much information here>>\n
<<one or more detail lines here\n>>
Bill_End...<<<much information here>>\n
...etc.... to EOF....

..i get the whole file matched....i just want each invoice...
it will eventually be in a oneliner like
a=File.read("billfile").scan(regexp)

so what is the non-greedy way for the above regexp to properly match 
each invoice...

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