From: dblack@... Date: 2002-08-13T03:56:51+09:00 Subject: Re: non-greedy regexp Hi -- On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 dblack@candle.superlink.net wrote: > To do what you were trying to do, try this: > > irb> "http://www.x.com/y/z.html".sub(%r|/[^/]+/?\.html$|, '') > "http://www.x.com/y" Whoops, having seen Mauricio's I now see a meaningless "/?" has slipped into mine :-) David -- David Alan Black home: dblack@candle.superlink.net work: blackdav@shu.edu Web: http://pirate.shu.edu/~blackdav