[users] Re: Regular expressions: locating the shortest match

[Manolis Christodoulou]

Enrique wrote:
Hi all,
    I have realized that in OOo the regular expression search 
consistently returns the longest possible match within the paragraph.

I am reformatting an XHTML text (and want to do within OOo, no XML 
processor), for instance:

<p class="Standard">Escriba aquν Espaρa, Ca<span class="T1">2+</span> 
con <span class="T2">acentos</span> <span class="T3">Camiσn</span>, y 
con griegas alfa:<span class="T4">&#945;</span>, beta: <span 
class="T4">&#946;</span>, y DELTA: <span class="T4">&#916;</span> {T}</p>

But I need to locate the shortest match. An example "<span.*</span>" 
selects almost the entire paragraph above, while I need just each tag, 
one after the other.
try "<span.*?</span>"
? is the lazy match mark. It works in Perl anyway...
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