Conceptgreedy matching
Greedy Matching
The default behavior of quantifiers in regular expressions to match as many characters as possible, backing off progressively only when subsequent matching fails.
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Oct 18
Greedy matching means quantifiers by default match as many characters as possible, only backtracking step by step when subsequent matching fails, and this backtracking process is called backtracking.
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