Nongreedy

adj

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Definitions

Adjective

1
Not greedy. not-comparable
"In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier."

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Example

"In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier."

Etymology

From non- + greedy.

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