Stupid Regex Question

[Jonas Galvez]

But now I'm puzzled. What is that '?' doing, exactly?

Could you point me any references?

Thanks again,




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Jonas Galvez
jonasgalvez.com/blog
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> > [Fredrik Lundh]
> > print re.findall("<tag>(.*?)</tag>", str)
>
> WOW! Thanks a bunch (again).
>
> Hehe, I had already written the following:
>
> def getIndices(str, base):
>     indices = []
>     offset = 0
>     while True:
>         i = base.find(str, offset)
>         if i == -1: break
>         indices.append(i)
>         offset = i+1
>     return indices
>
> def getContent(a, b, str):
>     content = []
>     startIndices = getIndices(a, str)
>     endIndices = getIndices(b, str)
>     startSlice = len(a)
>     def add(s, e):
>         content.append(str[s+startSlice:e])
>     map(add, startIndices, endIndices)
>     return content
>
> Ouch.
>
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> =-
> Jonas Galvez
> jonasgalvez.com/blog
> macromedia.com/go/team