[Tutor] regular expression question

[Kelie]

Andre Engels <andreengels <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 2009/4/28 Marek Spociński <at> go2.pl,Poland <marek_sp <at> 10g.pl>:

> > I suggest using r'abc.+?jk' instead.
> >

> 
> That was my first idea too, but it does not work for this case,
> because Python will still try to _start_ the match as soon as
> possible. 

yeah, i tried the '?' as well and realized it would not work.