In <[email protected]>, on
02/06/2012
   at 08:44 AM, Ken MacKenzie <[email protected]> said:

>I'm playing around with regular expressions and I want to achieve the
>following.  I spoke to a Unix geek but he didn't really understand
>what I was asking.

Ask him about lazy matches versus greedy matches.

I don't believe that awk supports lazy matches.
 
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