Dan Anderson wrote: > I have a regular expression that looks like: > > $foo =~ s[class.*?=.*?'.*?'][]sgi; > > The problem I run into is that if the following is presented to match: > > <table class='foo'><tr class='baz'><td class='bar'> > > The regular expression will match: > > class='foo'><tr class='baz'><td class='bar' > > And I'll get: > > <table > > > Is there any way I can tell the .*? to match "" as well as "."? > > Thanks in advance, > > Dan
What is it that you are trying to achieve? Using real, rather than generalized, examples, will help a lot. It sounds sort of like you are trying to strip extraneous tags. What are the standards by which you decide which are extraneous? Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]