Add a question mark after the star.
/[%][{]\s*((.|\n|\r)*?)\s*[}][%]/gm
Anton Hansson
2010-02-15 01:42:33
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Firstly, to make a wildcard match non-greedy, just append it with ? (so *? instead of * and +? instead of +).
Secondly, your pattern can be simplified in a number of ways.
/%\{\s*([\s\S]*?)\s*\}%/gm
There's no need to put a single character in square brackets.
Lastly the expression in the middle you want to capture, you'll note I put [\s\S]. That comes from Matching newlines in JavaScript as a replacement for the DOTALL behaviour.
cletus
2010-02-15 01:43:34
Any particular reason this was downvoted?
cletus
2010-02-15 02:27:05
*I* certainly don't see any reason for a downvote. Simply adding the question mark as Anton did may have solved the immediate problem, but this answer is much better.
Alan Moore
2010-02-15 04:47:07
That's not quite as broad. It's simple and fast but won't cover cases like `%{some}test}%` that the other answers will. Whether or not that's better or worse depends on an assumption the OP hasn't specified however.
cletus
2010-02-15 04:37:25