From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T20:53:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Regex

2009/5/6 Srijayanth Sridhar <srijayanth@gmail.com>:
> He only wanted the first occurrence of zip I think.

Ah, yes.  I overlooked that. Sorry for the noise.

IMHO an anchor is in order:

irb(main):001:0> "d:\\home\\abc2.zip\\abc.zip\\abc.com"[/\A.*?\.zip/]
=> "d:\\home\\abc2.zip"

Cheers

robert

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