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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@cor...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] non greedy regular expressions
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:47:00 -0400

> Ok, I finally see the point... thanks.
> Only one last question: So is there any simple way (using existing
> regexps) to find 'the interesting parts' in my last example?:
> ABCthe_interesting_partCBA blabla bla ABCthe_interesting_partCBA ...
> ...i.e. delimited with ABC from the left and CBA (or e.g. EFG) from the right?
> Say I have a file with such a structure and want to only get 'the
> interesting parts' form it.

doesn't s/ABC(the_interesting_part)CBA/x/g work for you?
maybe i don't understand the example.  if so, could you explain?

- erik