[Ruby] regex question

[Aaron Patterson]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:44:54PM -0800, shaners becker wrote:
> 
> this worked. thanks so much. this is why i like this mailing list so  
> much.
> 
> > Thats because the match was greedy.  Try this:
> >   <recommendations>(?m).*?</recommendations>
> 
> this did not.
> 
> > Or this:
> >   <recommendations>(?m)[^>]*</recommendations>
> 
> regex are my next big project to wrap my head around.

Oops.  You're right.  It should have been this

  <recommendations>(?m)[^<]*</recommendations>

I hit the wrong key.  :-)

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