Re: non-greedy regexp

[Michaël Cadilhac]

Robert Pontisso <rpontisso@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Hi.  I've  been  having  difficulty  finding  a  non-greedy  regular
> expression to  match a  single instance of  an xml-type tag  pair in
> a line.  Given a line  with several instances of  <foo>...</foo>, is
> there a version of <foo>.*</foo> that won't match everything between
> the beginning of the first pair and closing of the last pair?

Is «<foo>.*?</foo>» what you're looking for?

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