how to get around greedy * operator?

John Livermore

What regular expression would return only...
id="Table3"

from the string...
height="100%" id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"

I tried...
id=".*"

but I get a match to the end of the line.

I also tried...
id=".*?"

but that didn't find anything.

Thanks for the help,
John

Jul 23 '05 #1

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Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

John Livermore <jo************@nospm-inginix.com> writes:

What regular expression would return only...
id="Table3"

from the string...
height="100%" id="Table3" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"
The simplest (generalizable) regular expression would be
/id="[^"]*"/

I also tried...
id=".*?"

but that didn't find anything.

Suprising, depending on what browser you tested in. It should work
in a browser understanding ECMAScript v3 Regular Expressions.
It works for me in Opera 7 and IE 6.

/L
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Jul 23 '05 #2

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