From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2007-02-13T23:53:20+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the best way of parsing this string?

Robert Dober wrote:
[...]
> Well it might be necessary to  use a non greedy match
> 
> /<param.*value="(.*?)"/
> 
> in order not to consume a potentially following  key="..." pair.
> 
> A more explicit and thus more readable way might be to write it like this -
> avoiding any potential backtracking issues if the regexp evolves later too.
> 
> /<param.*value="([^"]*)"/

Your advice of using a non greedy match is good, but the example using a 
greedy match is not ;)

your_re =~ '<parameter value="1"/> ... bla bla bla ... value="ha!"'
puts $1

Greetings.
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