From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2008-04-07T08:25:28+09:00
Subject: Regex and non-greedy matching?

I have a slight problem. I have strings with some tags such as

'<b><lightblue>name:</></b>'

I need to match "name:" and "lightblue"
In other words:
  - What is between <> </>
and
  - What is inside the first <> right next to "name:"

The following regex does not work:

'<b><lightblue>name:</></b>' =~ /<([a-zA-Z]+)>(.+?)<\/>/

  $1  # => "b"
  $2  # => "<lightblue>name:

$2 should only be name:
and $1 should only be lightblue
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