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  • Problem matching anything other than a certain string

    Hello, I am quite new to regular expressions. I have been strugling with a regexp for the most part of tonight and although it has been a slow process I've been making progress. Up untill 3 hours ago. First, let me introduce you to what I'm trying to do. I am sorry if my explanation is bad but I find it quite hard to explain exacly what it ...
    Posted to Construction Advice (Forum) by kajic on April 17, 2007
  • .*? The reason to any slow regex!

    Hi guys, We all have been there, we have some text we need to allocate using a regex, and we cannot really define what can be between 2 sub matches, so we simply uses the easiest solution .*?. You will probebly wont notice the problem, until the day when the regex cannot find what we are looking for, and then it's takes hours to execute. ...
    Posted to Regex Jedi (Weblog) by sirpadk on February 24, 2007