yeah, that's a tricky one. What your first RegEx was doing is the equivalent of saying: "Match any number of characters (except for newlines), followed by any character that isn't a double quote."
The first pattern will (usually) be matched first, then the RegEx engine will start all over again until it finds any character that is a line break (I think there may be more to it than that, something along the lines of '. matches any printable character', but I may be wrong) which is followed by a character that isn't a double quote. (Just finished reading all about the internals of Perl's RegEx engine in _Computer Science And Perl Programming_, bit of a heavy read, but I now know all sorts of useless things about it :) -- Lindsay Evans. Developer, Red Square Productions. [p] 8596.4000 [f] 8596.4001 [w] www.redsquare.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Taco Fleur > Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:02 PM > To: CFAussie Mailing List > Subject: [cfaussie] RE: RegEx in DreamWeaver > > > Perfect, > > Thanks that was it... > > I thought it would halt at the first double quote as I have [^"] ??? > <snip/> --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
