Ah cool. :) On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Manish Jethani <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:25 AM, dorkie dork from > dorktown<[email protected]<dorkiedorkfromdorktown%40gmail.com>> > wrote: > > > My RegExp is being greedy. There are two matches. The regexp is grabbing > the > > first span all the way to the last span. How do I prevent it from being > > greedy? > > > > Given this string: > > > > Vestibulum <span style="text-decoration: underline;">aliquet</span> > > <em>leo</em> in <b>enim</b> <span style="text-decoration: > > line-through;">viverra</span> id lacinia arcu eleifend. > > [...] > > Normally if you want to make ".*" non-greedy, you append a "?" to it. > > Here's something I did with your source string: > > var s:String = 'Vestibulum <span style="text-decoration: > underline; font:bold">aliquet</span> <em>leo</em> in <b>enim</b> <span > style="text-decoration: line-through;">viverra</span> id > lacinia arcu eleifend.'; > > s = > s.replace(/(<span[^>]+style="[^"]*)text-decoration:\s*underline;?([^"]*"[^>]*>)(.*?)(<\/span>)/g, > "$1$2<u>$3</u>$4"); > > trace(s); > > I've made it more strict in terms of how it matches stuff. But you > should be able to modify your original regexp just by appending a "?" > to the ".*". > > Manish > >
