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1. Python non-greedy regexes    stackoverflow.com

How do I make a python regex like "(.*)" such that, given "a (b) c (d) e" python matches "b" instead of "b) c (d"? I know that I can use "[^)]" ...

2. Is it possible to make re find the smallest match while using greedy characters    stackoverflow.com

Disclaimer: I'm not a regex expert. I'm using Python re module to perform regex matching on many htm files. One of the patterns is something like this:

<bla><blabla>87765.*</blabla><bla>

3. Greedy versus Non-Greedy matching in Python re    stackoverflow.com

Please help me to discover whether this is a bug in Python (2.6.5), in my competence at writing regexes, or in my understanding of pattern matching. (I accept that a possible answer ...

4. Python re.sub use non-greedy mode (.*?) with end of string ($) it comes greedy!    stackoverflow.com

Code:

str = '<br><br />A<br />B'
print(re.sub(r'<br.*?>\w$', '', str))

5. Python Regular Expression with optional but greedy groups    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to write a regular expression to match a string that may or may not contain two tags. I need the expression to return me all five elements of the ...

6. De-greedifying a regular expression in python    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to write a regular expression that will convert a full path filename to a short filename for a given filetype, minus the file extension. For example, I'm trying to get ...

7. Why is the minimal (non-greedy) match affected by the end of string character '$'?    stackoverflow.com

EDIT: remove original example because it provoked ancillary answers. also fixed the title. The question is why the presence of the "$" in the regular expression effects the greedyness of the ...

8. Regex: Match brackets both greedy and non greedy    stackoverflow.com

I'm using python regular expression module, re . I need to match anything inside '(' ')' on this two phrases, but "not so greedy". Like this:

show the (name) of the (person)

calc the ...

9. How to stop python Regular Expression being too greedy    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to match (in Python) the show name and season/episode numbers from tv episode filenames in the format: Show.One.S01E05.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU.mkv and Show.Two.S08E02.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi My regular expression: (?P<show>[\w\s.,_-]+)\.[Ss]?(?P<season>[\d]{1,2})[XxEe]?(?P<episode>[\d]{2}) matches correctly on Show Two giving me Show Two, 08 and ...

10. Python non-greedy regex to clean xml    stackoverflow.com

I have an 'xml file' file that has some unwanted characters in it

<data>
  <tag>blar </tag><tagTwo> bo </tagTwo>
  some extra 
  characters not enclosed that I want to remove
 ...