From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-08-13T03:40:47+09:00
Subject: Re: non-greedy regexp

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 03:28:26AM +0900, Tom Robinson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following regexp is supposed to chop off the last / of a string
> and all characters following it, but it seems to be ignoring the
> non-greedy indicator (?):
> 
> irb(main):001:0> "http://www.x.com/y/z.html".sub(%r|/.+?\.html$|, '')
> "http:"
> 
> The expected result should be "http://www.x.com/y".  I thought this
> was a bug but perl produces the same result, so what am I missing?
> 
> Is there a better alternative to doing url parsing by hand?

irb(main):001:0> "http://www.x.com/y/z.html".sub(%r|/[^/]+\.html$|,'')
"http://www.x.com/y"

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