From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam regexp coverage
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:51:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f04904050909514b882f5c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2639078ba1a669e2ca3eeb93d1ae1372@mteege.de>
your problem is that .* is greedy. instead of
.*"
(maximal sequence of anything followed by quote)
write
[^"]*"
(maximal sequence of not-quote, followed by quote).
you don't need the backslashes for : and ".
-rob
On Sun, 9 May 2004 16:28:17 0000, Matthias Teege <matthias@mteege.de> wrote:
>
> I have another small problem with sam and regexp. I have a text
> with a lot of constructs like this one:
>
> Hello world http://my.domain:"This is a link" more text and
> http://another.domain:"This is another link" follows more text
>
> Now I try to translate the link in html syntax with
> ,x/(http.*)\:\".*\" s/(http.*):\"(.*\n*.*)\"/<a href=\"\1\">\2<\/a>/
>
> The problem is, that the regexp matches both "links" not only
> the first ore the second one. I've tried to find a better one but
> its hopeless. ;-)
>
> Thanks for any hint
> Matthias
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-09 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-09 16:28 Matthias Teege
2004-05-09 16:51 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2004-05-10 1:00 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-10 0:23 ` boyd, rounin
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