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Subject: Re: [9fans] regexp not greedy enough
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 14:57:47 +0100
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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> Why? How do I get the whole region?

nothing matches a newline except a newline itself.
so instead of:

	\/\*[^\/]*

i think you might want:

	\/\*([^\/]|\n)*

(BTW, it is possible to write a regexp to properly
match C-style comments, but it's quite involved.
minimal matching would make it quite easy, but i guess
there are good reasons not to implement it)