Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:25:08 -0700 From: Shill <shill@free.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: regex(3), re_format(7) and shortest match Message-ID: <3BD5A7F4.748285AA@verizon.net>
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Say I have the string: "yo <a --- </a> hiphop <a +++ </a> fun" I want to isolate individual "<a ... </a>" subexpressions. The naive regex I used was: (<a.*</a>) Of course, that doesn't work since it returns the longest match, in my case "<a --- </a> hiphop <a +++ </a>". I battled with bracket expressions and collating elements for three hours to no avail. Can anyone tell me how to achieve the shortest match? i.e. the first call to regexec() would return "<a --- </a>" and the second would return "<a +++ </a>". Any help will be *greatly* appreciated. Shill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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