From: Jon <exabrial@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T00:34:25+09:00
Subject: Regex Black Magic... how to stop matching if char?

I'm trying to translate a strange derivative of xml into valid xml. Here
is an example line:

<SUBEVENTSTATUS
1:2><OPERATIONNAME></OPERATIONNAME>gofast<OPERATIONSTATUS>stopped</OPERATIONSTATUS><TARGETOBJECTNAME>name</TARGETOBJECTNAME><TARGETOBJECTVALUE>val</TARGETOBJECTVALUE></SUBEVENTSTATUS
1:1><SUBEVENTSTATUS 2:2><......and on

REXML pukes on the <SUBEVENTSTATUS 1:2> tag... which it should. There
should be some kind of attribute declaration instead. I want to
translate it to something like this: <SUBEVENTSTATUS no="1" of="2">

I'm trying to make a regex to detect the funny tags. Here is what I have
so far:

xml_fix=/<(\S+)\s+(\d+):(\d+)>/

This is great, but it will match this:

<Request><code_set_list 1:2>

instead of just this:

<code_set_list 1:2>

...because there is no gauranteed whitespace between tags. Basically, I
need to stop matching if a ">" is found. I've never had to deal with
anything quite like this in my regex experience. Any help or thoughts of
a better way to do things is much appreciated!

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