From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-06-16T00:05:10+09:00
Subject: Re: str.scan

On Jun 15, 12:13 am, Peter Szinek <p...@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> 2) What I really believe you want is
>
> items = page.scan('<li>.*?</li>')
>
> ? adds greediness to your regexp - so instead of matching the first
> <li>. then matching as much as possible of anything, then matching the
> *last* </li>, 2) will match as less as possible.

Minor pedantic correction: .* is greedy (it grabs as much as it can).
The question mark makes it non-greedy (stop as soon as you've found a
match).