From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-07-29T19:57:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't control regular expressions

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On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Guillermo.Acilu@koiaka.com wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I need to extract from an html file all the scripts. So I have  
> written the
> following regular expression for a first test:
>
> %r|<script(.+)script>|m
>
> The problem I am having is that the expression takes the first  
> <script and
> the very last script>. So it matches the beginning of the first  
> script in
> the document and the end of the last script in the document with
> everything in the middle. I want to extract just the scripts one by  
> one.
> How do I do it?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Guillermo
>


Hi, regexps are not the right tool for this. You can find some  
explanation on why that is, you can
will find some in this topic:

http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-talk-google/browse_thread/thread/2d86d106b5c8797a

Regards,
Florian Gilcher
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