From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T05:35:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd Regexp Issue

Kyle Heck wrote:
> I'm writing a web crawler, and in that crawler I want to remove all
> scripts in the pages I crawl.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any insight on the issue would be GREAT?! :D
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyle Heck
> 

Try multiline mode: gsub!(/<!--.*-->/m,"")

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