From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T20:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Regex

2009/5/6 Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Sriram Varahan <sriram.varahan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>  I have this string:
>>
>>    "d:\\home\\abc2.zip\\abc.zip\\abc.com"
>>
>>  I need to extract the contents up to the first occurrence of zip which
>> would be:
>>
>>  "d:\\home\\abc2.zip"
>>
>> When i use a regex like: \(.+).zip\ it gives me the entire contents upto
>> the second zip.
> Why are you so greedy Sriram ;)? Well it is not you it is the "+"
> which is greedy, try the non greedy version "+?" it might just give
> you a nice surprise.

Why not use File.dirname?

irb(main):003:0> File.dirname "d:\\home\\abc2.zip\\abc.zip\\abc.com"
=> "d:\\home\\abc2.zip\\abc.zip"

Cheers

robert


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