From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-31T17:33:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex Black Magic... how to stop matching if char?

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 12:34:25AM +0900, Jon wrote:
> <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>

Try (\w+) instead of (\S+)