From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-07-04T03:56:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression problems

Hi,

At Thu, 4 Jul 2002 02:25:01 +0900,
Jonas Bengtsson wrote:
> So the problem is that the second group--(.*)--is too 'hungry' and
> doesn't stop on the first occurrence of the third group--(<name:.*).
> 
> Is it possible to change this behavior of the second group? Or are
> there any better ways to solve this problem?

  re = /<name: ([a-zA-Z_]+)>\n(.*?)(<name:.*|\z)/m

Or:
  re = /<name: ([a-zA-Z_]+)>\n(.*?)(?=<name:|\z)/m
  while match = re.match(unprocessed)
    name = match[1]
    content = match[2]
    unprocessed = match.post_match	# <--
    puts "MATCH", "name:#{name}", "content:#{content}"
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada