From: franco <flazzarino@...>
Date: 2007-11-28T01:44:59+09:00
Subject: Re: regex problem

the first kleene star might need to be non greedy? in other words stop
at the first href consumed, not the last.
/<a.*?href="(.*?)"/

On Nov 27, 11:28 am, "K. R." <m...@palstek.ch> wrote:
> hi @all
>
> I would like to scan a string of html-tags. I need it to take out all
> links (a-tags) in the string, but I become only the last one. What is
> wrong? See the code below...
>
> response = '<a href="hello1.html">test1</a> - <a
> href="hello2.html">test2</a>'
> response.scan(/<a.*href="(.*?)"/) do |line|
>   puts line
> end
>
> thanks for helping!
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