[Ruby] regex question

[shaners becker]

i tried both eric's and aaron's suggestions. neither worked for me.

i'm in textmate, i've got some xml that i want to simplify. i should  
be able to do just that with some find and replace, right? so here's  
a shortened sample of what i have, in case that matters.

<recommendations>
   <book asin="1563898683" aspect="Paperback" author="Jeph  
Loeb&#x000a;Tim Sale" country="us" created="190891680"  
currentValue="$11.58" fullTitle="Batman: Dark Victory" genre="Action  
&amp; Adventure&#x000a;Comics &amp; Graphic  
Novels&#x000a;Contemporary&#x000a;Batman&#x000a;Adventure &amp;  
Thrillers&#x000a;Fantasy&#x000a;DC Comics&#x000a;Superheroes"  
lastLookupTime="190891680" netrating="4.5" pages="392" price="$19.99"  
published="01-10-2002" publisher="DC Comics"  
purchaseDate="19-01-2007" title="Batman: Dark Victory"  
upc="9781563898686" uuid="76AE1DE0-DB14-4ED3-9201-C919F2F88A68">
   </book>
   <book asin="1563894696" aspect="Paperback" author="Jeph  
Loeb&#x000a;Tim Sale" country="us" created="190891680"  
currentValue="$10.00" fullTitle="Batman: The Long Halloween"  
genre="Action &amp; Adventure&#x000a;Comics &amp; Graphic  
Novels&#x000a;Contemporary&#x000a;Batman&#x000a;Science  
Fiction&#x000a;Adventure &amp; Thrillers&#x000a;DC  
Comics&#x000a;Superheroes" lastLookupTime="190891680" netrating="4.5"  
pages="369" price="$19.99" published="01-11-1999" publisher="DC  
Comics" purchaseDate="19-01-2007" title="Batman: The Long Halloween"  
upc="9781563894695" uuid="E33D943C-9CA5-4C39-BC0B-D2A05476A019">
   </book>
</recommendations>


i'm trying to rip out all of the recommendations, so i'm left with  
just my books in my library, not the ones i might want in my library.

so... i tried both:


/<recommendations>[^<]*<\/recommendations>/
/<recommendations>.*?<\/recommendations >/

neither of them found any results.

-sb



On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:19, Aaron Patterson wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:23:20AM -0800, shaners becker wrote:
>>> 2. just in textmate, i'm trying to do a find and replace that  
>>> needs a
>>> regex. its an xml file and i want to remove all of one type of tag
>>> and its contents. say the tag is "book":
>>>
>>> <book>moby dick</book>
>>>
>>> how do i say find all: <book>...anything here...</book>?
>>
>> blah =~ /<book>[^<]*<\/book>/
>
> Also, a question mark turns a greedy match into a non-greedy match:
>
> blah =~ /<book>.*?<\/book>/
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