Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy
Drew Tomlinson
drew at mykitchentable.net
Wed Sep 9 16:15:35 UTC 2009
I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim. I have lines like this:
http://site1/dir/;
http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone;
http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName;
http://site4/dir/;
I'm want to match "http:*" and stop matching at the first ";". My basic
regex is:
/http:.\+;/
But it's matching *all* the semi-colons. Thus I've Googled and tried
various incatations to try and make my regex "non-greedy" but I can't
seem to come up with the correct combination.
How can I write a regex that stops matching at the first semi-colon?
Thanks,
Drew
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