From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T05:32:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd Regexp Issue

On 5/23/07, Kyle Heck <dbcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> I should be able to do a simple gsub!(/<!--.*-->/,"") right?  Well, I do
> that and unfortunately it doesn't remove some scripts.  Take google for
> instance.  It removes the first script, but not the second.  I'm really
> confused.  Since google has two scripts, <!-- happens twice, so do -->
> so it's not like the full regexp should ever fail to be triggered.

  gsub(/<!--.*?-->/m,"")

  If there are new lines inside the string you need to use the m
modifier to make the dot (.) include new lines as well.
  And the ? is to make the match non-greedy. Without it it would match
the start of the first script and the end of the last script.


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Luis Parravicini
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