[Mediawiki-l] REGEXP for wiki tables

[Sam.Sexton at thomsonreuters.com]

I believe that making the match for } non-greedy as below would match
just the one table, but I've not tried it.

s/\{\|.+?\|\?}//gs 

/Sam


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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>On 2009-08-05 Matthias Korn wrote:
>> I have now settled with "\{[^\}]+\}" which is far from perfect, 
>> because it also matches (partially) on templates. But that's ok.
>> 
>s/\{\|.+?\|\}//gs would do a lot better, since wikitables start in "{|"

>and end in "|}" and would not touch templates.
>
>/BP

But that would sometimes grab more than just one table.
-Courtney

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