From: Jonas Bengtsson <caelumse@...>
Date: 2002-07-04T06:32:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression problems

Hello Nobu,

Wednesday, July 03, 2002, 8:56:22 PM, you wrote:

>   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

Thanks!
I didn't see this in Programming Ruby before:
  re ?
  Matches zero or one occurrence of re. The *, +, and {m,n} modifiers
  are greedy by default. Append a question mark to make them minimal.

-- 
Best regards,
 Jonas

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