> solution here is to use negated classes to make the match. Negated > Classes are not greedy they match untill an exception is made to the > class and thats it. thus:
I think you're confused about what greedy means. Negated classes (assuming you mean "[^x]") are neither greedy nor non-greedy. The asterisk in "[^>]*" makes this greedy -- it will match as many characters as it can. ".*" is no more or less greedy -- it matches as many characters as it can. The difference is only in what is a legal match. "." matches any character (except nulls in null-terminated strings), so it is more ... omnivorous? Example: "[^x]*a" (greedy) matching on "bad dog bad" will match "bad dog ba" since it finds the longest possible match (until the last a or it finds an x). "[^x]*?a" (non-greedy or lazy) matching on the same string gives "ba" since it finds the shortest possible match. Does that make sense? --Ben ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:21:850 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/21 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:21 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.21 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
