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Asked: 2026-05-24T02:59:43+00:00

I’d like to isolate a substring of a source code in ruby, but I

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I’d like to isolate a substring of a source code in ruby, but I can’t have better than this
http://rubular.com/r/ALngW9TOwy
I’d like to stop my match at the end of the first 

<p>[...]/n</p>

I tried some things, but I have to admit that I suck at regex. I know there’s a lot of method, like using Regexp or a simple regex, but I’m lost. If somebody can help, it would be great !
Thanks a lot !

EDIT: Thanks to Mchl, I have the solution. I put my need in the commentary, but it’ll be better here:
so I use this

match(/<p>(.*?)<\/p>/m)[1].strip
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  1. Editorial Team

    Not sure if I inderstood correctly, but it seems to me, you need to ‘ungreed’ the *

    <p>(.*?)<\/p>

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