## informed by http://www.tcl.tk/doc/howto/regexp81.tml#part2_1



% set x {yeah yeah <b>whatever</b> yeah, <a class=l href="http://fakedew.net/">the wretched</a>, the hopes and prays for better days. <a href="http://slacker.se/">slacker.se and all the could have beens</a>, just a glimpse, just a little <b>reminder</b>.}

% regexp {<a class=l href=\"([^\">]*)\">(.*?)</a>} $x m a b
1

% set a
http://fakedew.net/

% set b
the wretched</a>, the hopes and prays for better days. <a href="http://slacker.se/">slacker.se and all the could have beens




obviously, I want $b to hold the string "the wretched" and nothing else. why does (.*?) grab everything up until the last '</a>'?