Re: Less greedy pattern match

On Friday 18 April 2008 06:36, Ed Morton wrote:

> Hang on, I spotted a couple more characters we could get rid of:
> 
>    gawk 'NR%2' RS='</?t1>' ORS=
> 
> So, it's now briefer than the perl solution:
> 
>    perl -p0e 's%<t1>.+?</t1>%%gs'
> 
> What does it do again ;-)?

Ok ok, you won :-)
Now let's just hope some perl diehard does not come up with a shorter perl
solution...

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