Turning Off Greediness : Greedy « Regular Expression « Perl






  1. Perl
  2. Regular Expression
  3. Greedy

Turning Off Greediness

    
Metacharacter   What It Matches
x??             Matches 0 or 1 occurrences of x
(xyz)??         Matches 0 or 1 occurrences of pattern xyz
x*?             Matches 0 or more occurrences of x
(xyz)*?         Matches 0 or more occurrences of pattern xyz
x+?             Matches 1 or more occurrences of x
(xyz)+?         Matches 1 or more occurrences of pattern xyz
x{m,n}?         Matches at least m occurrences of x and no more than n occurrences of x
x{m}?           Matches at least m occurrences of x
x{m,}?          Matches at least m times








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