From: Daniel Bye <ruby@...>
Date: 2011-07-25T18:14:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Regex

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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:11:03AM +0900, Gregory Ma wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I need help with a Regular Expression, I need to split the text on "- "
> on get the first element.
>=20
> "Web Application / QA Developer (Mid-Senior Level) - BFG Interactive -
> (Hilton Head Island, SC) - FullTime"
>=20
> I tried this, but it doesn't work: /(.*) - /i

Try the non-greedy version, /(.*?) -/i

Dan

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