From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-03-17T07:25:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Case against ".*" regexp

On 3/16/07, Jan Friedrich <frdrch@gmail.com> wrote:
> Edgardo Hames schrieb:
> > Some time ago I remember reading a post in this list against using
> > ".*" regexp but I cannot find it -- I guess I don't remember the right
> > keywords :(
> Did you probably mean this thread?
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/100364
>
Hmm I am not sure this one was what OP meant, was there not a problem
with the greedy match eating up "<" s in xml/html

if I remember correctly OPITOP (OP in the other post ;) asked why

%r{(<.*>)*} === "<a><b><c>"
Regexp.last_match.captures gave ['<a><b><c>'] instead of ['<a>', '<b>', '<c>']


> regards
> Jan
>
>

HTH
Robert

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