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

[Enrique]

Manolis Christodoulou wrote:

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...

Already tried, but without luck!
Thanks anyway!

- Enrique -

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