Re: stripping HTML tags with Perl

[Darren Cook <darrenj@example.com>]

>         s/<.*?>//ig;
> 
> This is an oops, I think.  AFAIK Perl regexps are _greedy_, matching
> the longest possible string.

The ? after the * makes it non-greedy, i.e. the shortest possible match.
This works in perl, python (re module) and php (if you use the perl
regexes, and not the older POSIX regexes).

Darren