From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-06-07T05:22:05+09:00
Subject: regexp across multiple lines

Hi:

I am trying to strip <script>blah</script> statements,
that occur across multiple lines, from an html document.

For a <script> and </script> on a single line I find that this works:

  html.gsub(/<script[^>]*>.*(<\/script>)/i, "")

I don't see why this does not work across multiple lines:

  html.gsub(/<script[^>]*>.*(<\/script>){1,1}/mi, "")

I thought the {1,1} would tell it to match only one </script>.

Regexp experts, I welcome your input.

-- 
Jim Freeze
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