Greediness
Learn how to apply greedy and nongreedy quantifiers of regex in Perl.
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Greedy quantifiers
The + and * quantifiers are greedy: they try to match the input string as much as possible. This can be particularly pernicious. Consider a naïve use of the “zero or more non-newline characters” pattern of .*:
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