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Ah yes make stuff inside stuff optional. You say lazy. Is that a bad thing?

Pierce McGeough
– Pierce McGeough

2014-10-15 13:57:16 +00:00
Commented Oct 15, 2014 at 13:57
@PierceMcGeough No, that's just what it's called: Match as few characters as possible to meet the condition instead of as many as possible. Note that it has nothing to do with optional, the ? symbol has a different meaning here. See for example regular-expressions.info/repeat.html

jeroen
– jeroen

2014-10-15 13:58:22 +00:00
Commented Oct 15, 2014 at 13:58

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