[AaronD]

A question for those more knowledgeable on regex or XBMC scraper's than me. Why is that the following query matches.

Code:

<thumb>(.*?)url="([^"]*)" width="[^"]*" size="mid"(.*?)</thumb>

But this query doesn't

Code:

<thumb>(.*?)url="([^"]*)".*?size="mid"(.*?)</thumb>

The first matches because it finds the width attribute, but in the second regex I'm trying to mask out anything between the URL close quote and the size attribute. This always fails. Frustrating, because this would make it simple to take out the width parameter whether it was there or not. But my regex knowledge is very limited.