From: Newb Newb <hema@...>
Date: 2008-08-23T18:43:27+09:00
Subject: Re: REGULAR EXPRESSION


> The . stays for any character, as such your regular expression seems
> to be way too greedy.
> This however should not harm too much if there is only one img tag in
> one line, although backtracking
> might be a performance issue. I do however fail to understand the
> behavior you described.
> Anyway, I believe the following regex should do fine:
> 
> item.description.gsub! /<img.*?>/, ""
> 
> HTH
> Robert
> 
> 
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thanks a lot
it works
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