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From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam regexp coverage
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Date: Sun,  9 May 2004 09:51:44 -0700
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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
>