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  1. Perl
  2. Regular Expression
  3. Greedy

Greedy and non-greedy quantifiers

    
#!usr/bin/perl


use strict;
use warnings;

my $string1 = "there  here  There  here there Here";
my $string2 = $string1;

print "$string1\n";
$string1 =~ s/N.*here\.//;
print "$string1\n";
print "$string2\n";
$string2 =~ s/N.*?here\.//;
print "$string2\n\n";








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