Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Non Greedy Regexp for Tag Substitution

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4: Response to Non Greedy Regexp for Tag Substitution (response to 1)
Posted by Gilbert Wong on 11/01/01 02:16 AM
to make it non-greedy, just put a ? after the pattern which would usually be greedy (*?, *+, etc). If you are searching for a specific pattern, you probably don't need a non-greedy quantifier. http://www.scriptics.com/man/tcl8.2.3/TclCmd/re_syntax.htm#M12