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Non Greedy Regex match
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# By default ReGex will match the bigest occurrence:
ruby-1.9.2-p180 > "_one_ two _three_".scan(/_(.+)_/)
=> [["one_ two _three"]]
# But we can tell it to match all the smallest ones:
ruby-1.9.2-p180 > "_one_ two _three_".scan(/_(.+?)_/)
=> [["one"], ["three"]]
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