Dan
-- The dark language of memory allocation is not to be spoken here.
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Jason Holt wrote:
Actually, a (normal) greedy match would turn "<b><i>foo</i></b>" into "". Single-line-matching is the only reason why it doesn't snip everything from the first < to the last > in your whole file. Non-greedy matches aren't trivially implementable for the general case in a greedy regex, which is why they have to be added to the language (that is, they're not just syntactic sugar). But in your case, %s/<[^>]*>//g should do the trick.
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