Problem with Regular Expression: XML comment parsing

I have create pattern to parse xml comments:
It works fine but only problem that I have is that it parse only last occurrence :(

sabre150 wrote:
MrJbee wrote:
I have create pattern to parse xml comments:
It works fineI'm surprised it works fine since the ".*" is greedy and will gobble as much as it can and you will end up matching from the start of the first comment to the end of the last comment.
but only problem that I have is that it parse only last occurrence :(Make the ".*" reluctant using ".*?" or, best of all, use an XML parser.
Edited by: sabre150 on Jan 11, 2010 4:00 PMFirst at thanks for reply.
Second it is not so greedy like it look. Because of that:
(?!.*(<!--))I can`t use xml parser since It is only part of my JEditor with styles. I use reg exp to highlight comments, strings, chars and so on....
By the way I try to replace .* => .*? and it is still no results. I mean only last is selected. Maybe you have an example on how to match structure if the do not
have specified substrings.
Something like this:
hello[^(guten tag)]*bye // I know that this is wrongEdited by: MrJbee on Jan 11, 2010 1:22 PM

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