Non-greedy regex?

Alex Rice alrice at ARCplanning.com
Mon Aug 18 10:46:01 EDT 2003


On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:23  AM, Jim Witte wrote:

>   Is there an elegant way (without having to count back characters and 
> such from endMatch) to get matchChunk to do what I want and do a 
> "non-greedy" match?

Just a couple of ideas - gotta run.

1) use replaceText instead?
2) Don't put the \n explicitly, use ^ and $ to anchor the match to the 
start or end of the line. It may not be necessary to anchor it at all.


Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
http://ARCplanning.com




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