From: Dave Rose <bitdoger2@...>
Date: 2006-11-10T04:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: too greedy of a regexp

Robert Klemme wrote:
> Jan Svitok wrote:
>>> ...etc.... to EOF....
>> /(^BillHead(.*?))(^Bill_End(.*?))\n/m
>> 
>> or
>> 
>> /(^BillHead(.*?))(^Bill_End([^\n].*))\n/m
>> 
>> notice the .*? instead of .*
>> 
 => ["", "BillHead", "\nfoo\nbar\n", "BillEnd"]
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> 	robert
i played around in irb with a shorten extract file and found that:
b=File.read("drbilp.txt").scan(/(^BillHead(.*?))(^Bill_End(\d*)(\s*UBPBILP1\n)(.*?))/m)
works in that separates each invoice in an sub-array of size=6
in which b[x][0]+b[x][2] completes that task of reading,scanning 
correctly
and puting all in a ruby 'container' that i can do an each on....thanx 
dave


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