From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2002-11-14T15:59:41+09:00
Subject: Re: regex help

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:39:09 +0900, Shashank Date wrote:
>Using ruby 1.7.3 (2002-10-12) [i386-mswin32] on Win XP (Home)
>
>Trying to creat a regex which will match a single-quoted string.
>My first attempt 'almost' works:  /\'.*?\'/

You're doing a minimal match. Use:

/'.*'/ instead of /'.*?'/

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2002.11.14 at 01.58.50