Regex Help - Greedy vs. Non-Greedy

[Bob Hall]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:15:25AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm trying to do a search and replace in vim.  I have lines like this:
> http://site1/dir/;
> http://site2/dir/;LastName, FirstName;Phone;
> http://site3/dir/;LastName, FirstName;
> http://site4/dir/;
> 
> I'm want to match "http:*" and stop matching at the first ";".  My basic 
> regex is:
> 
> /http:.\+;/

Use "{-}" in place of "+".

	/http:.\{-};/