Turn gredy matching off

[AlexTekTip]

Hello,

I am trying to extract anything that looks like:

mailto:some_one.me@dom_main.com">


my regex looks something like this:

/mailto:[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+\@[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]+\"\>/

Given the abobe expression how would I turn off greedy matching? do I just enclose the whole thing in paranthese and end it with a "?

 

[PaulTEG]

Now why would you want to go and do that?
--Paul

at all, at all

It's important in life to always strike a happy medium, so if you see someone with a crystal ball, and a smile on their face ... smack the fecker

 

[zephan]

Alex,
This way, you regexep catch sequence of words ended by a point, at each side of "@".

Why dont you :

/mailto\w+\.)\w+\@(\w+\.)\w+/

Also, if you can give a sample where gredy and non gerdy can makes a difference will help.

I think what you want to know is the syntax,

\w+ : catch a "word" character one or several tymes greedily
\w+? : catch a "word" character one or several tymes non greedily

HTH,
Zephan

 

[zephan]

Sorry,
There's a mistake in the regeex I provided :
Here's what I wanted :

/mailto\w+\.)+\w+\@(\w+\.)+\w+/