From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-11-19T23:00:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Multi-line regular expression match question

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you're using ruby 1.9 you can do us that, *? is the reluctant version of *:
>
>  /^\|-:$.*?^-\|$/m

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> If you're on 1.8, one possibility is:
>
>  /^\|-:$(?m:.*?)(?=^-\|)^-\|$/

I was under the impression that the reluctant versions of the four
quantifiers was only available under ruby 1.9, but they are apparently
available under 1.8 as well. I used it in the example I showed for 1.8
without noticing.

Regards,
Ammar