Metacharacters that Turn off Greediness : Metacharacters « Regular Expression « Perl






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Metacharacters that Turn off Greediness

    

# Greedy and not greedy
$_="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
s/[a-z]+/XXX/;
print $_, "\n";

$_="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
s/[a-z]+?/XXX/;
print $_, "\n";








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