Re: Regular Expressions
| From: | Tim Van Wassenhove | Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:29:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regular Expressions | ||
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In article <20040715144024.00007d80@ariktab>, Arik Raffael Funke wrote:
> implement following pattern "Last Name:\s*(.*)\n".
> I get just 'Jason'. But what I currently get is:
> Jason
> Street: abc
This is behaviour because (.*) is greedy.
As you noticed, it matched "Jason \nStreet:abc"
/Last Name:\s+(.*?)\n/
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Tim Van Wassenhove <http://home.mysth.be/~timvw>