[Lazarus] Regex help needed please

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 18:18, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm fairly new to regex. I know that the * is a greedy match. This is
> currently giving me undesired results. How do I rewrite the regex below
> so it will match up to the first } symbol it encounters.
>
> To put this in context, I'm writing a regex based syntax highlighter.
> Here is sample code I am having trouble with:
>
>   function MyFunc: {$ifdef FPC}longword{$else}word{$endif};
>
>
> The following regex matches the first { symbol up until the last }
> symbol. :-(  I obviously want it to stop at the first } it encounters.
>
> This is the regex I'm currently using:
>
>    \s*\{\$.*\}
>

Try this:
\{.*[^\}]\}



>
>
> Any regex wizards that could help me here?
>
> Regards,
>  - Graeme -
>
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