Parsing HTML with regular expressions is the work of the Devil.
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Dan
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[mailto:list-bounce@example.com] On Behalf Of Wes Gamble
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:11 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: String.scan hangs in some cases?Just for kicks, here was the original regex - attempting to match
against a string containing an entire HTML page OR a style sheet./(?=<style)*?background.*?(?=-image)*?:.*?url\((.*?)\).*?(?=<\
/style>)*?/I was attempting to make the <style and </style> parts optional.
As it turns out, there are so many different ways that a style can be
specified in a HTML page, that I just went with the much simpler:/background.*?:.*?url\((.*?)\)/i
Wes