Ruby Regex to capture everything between two strings (inclusive)

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I'm trying to sanitize some HTML and just remove a single tag (and I'd really like to avoid using nokogiri, etc). So I've got the following string appearing I want to get rid of: ```

(.*)<\/div>/m` and that works, but it'll also match up to and including any further `

` tags in the document, which I don't want. Any ideas on how to approach this?

Accepted Answer

I believe you're looking for an non-greedy regex, like this: ``` /

(.*?)<\/div>/m ``` Note the added `?`. Now, the capturing group will capture as little as possible (non-greedy), instead of as most as possible (greedy).

Ruby Regex to capture everything between two strings (inclusive)

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