Re: [xsl] Ungready Flag on Regex

["Christophe Marchand cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks ! Regex will always strange to me...

XMLPrague really must be in presential mode. I have too many beers to 
drink with you !

Christophe

Le 08/10/2020 C  16:54, Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx 
a C)critB :
> On 08.10.2020 16:26, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > You want [^*]*?
>
> Thinking of the brilliant potential for misunderstanding that this 
> answer entails.
>
> Christophe: I don't understand why you are asking me whether I want 
> [^*]*.
>
> Jokes aside, I think you need the non-greedy question mark modifier, 
> but not on [^*]*. You use it to make .* non-greedy. Otherwise it will 
> stop at the first '*' that it encounters.
>
> This works:
>
> <xsl:template name="xsl:initial-template">
> B  <doc>
> B B B  <xsl:analyze-string
> B B B B B  select="'Comments are delimited by **/* */** or prefixed by 
> **//**'"
> B B B B B  regex="\*\*(.*?)\*\*">
> B B B B B  <xsl:matching-substring>
> B B B B B B B  <b>
> B B B B B B B B B  <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
> B B B B B B B  </b>
> B B B B B  </xsl:matching-substring>
> B B B B B  <xsl:non-matching-substring>
> B B B B B B B  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> B B B B B  </xsl:non-matching-substring>
> B B B  </xsl:analyze-string>
> B  </doc>
> </xsl:template>