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Re: non-greedy matching?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: non-greedy matching?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:52:39 +0000
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Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> They are done in order to strip control characters from a prompt so
> that its display width can be determined.  At first I thought that it
> would surely be easy to avoid this, but I still haven't come up with a
> quick replacement, since neither zsh nor sed seem to be able to do
> non-greedy matching.

You can, it's in the manual.

% foo='%{one%}hello%{two%}'
% print ${(S)foo//[%]\{*[%]\}}
hello

Don't ask me why you need to put the `%' in square brackets --- there may
be some stray (s)printf in the code, for example.  (Do tell me if you know
what it is.)

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070

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