Greedy quantifiers with vbs regular expressions

[Guest_imported]

I'm having trouble with greedy quantifiers using vbs regex. This works with Perl:<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;IMG.*?&gt; if I am looking for html image tags in a html doc<br><br>It doesn't work with vbscript. (Error: unexpected quantifier). Other regex that I have tried work fine.<br><br>Thank you in advance for considering this.<br>

 

[MrMango]

I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that VBScript simply doesn't support non-greedy quantifiers. You'll probably be better off using something like &quot;<IMG[^>]*>&quot; to search for html image tags. If you've used Perl regular expressions very much, I think you'll find there's a lot you can't do with them in VBScript simply because of a lack of support.

The MS Developers Network has a so-so overview of their regular expression support at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/

Click on VBScript and then Regular Expressions Guide. It doesn't have a whole lot of examples, but it is a good reference.

MM
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