[Tutor] Newbie - regex question

Serdar Tumgoren zstumgoren at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 00:02:35 CEST 2010


 To make a qualifier non-greedy,

> simply add an asterix at its end:
>
> r'<email>WORD1-.*?</email>'
>
>
Hugo explains this nicely, but I just wanted to make one minor correction
 -- the non-greedy qualifier is the question mark AFTER an the asterisk
(which is what Hugo's code shows but I believe he accidentally left off).

Serdar
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