greediness in sed

Question

I want

ereg ($rat, $dog, $cat)

to become

preg_match (\'#\'.$rat.\'#\', $dog, $cat)

To achieve this, I did

Answer 1

~ ross$ echo 'ereg ($rat, $dog, $cat)' | sed -e "s/.*(\([^,]*\),\([^,]*\),\([^)]*\))/preg_match ('#'.\1.'#', \2, \3)/"
preg_match ('#'.$rat.'#',  $dog,  $cat)