What do ‘lazy’ and ‘greedy’ mean in the context of regular expressions?
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1 min readAug 26, 2019
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| Greedy quantifier | Lazy quantifier | Description |
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| * | *? | Star Quantifier: 0 or more |
| + | +? | Plus Quantifier: 1 or more |
| ? | ?? | Optional Quantifier: 0 or 1 |
| {n} | {n}? | Quantifier: exactly n |
| {n,} | {n,}? | Quantifier: n or more |
| {n,m} | {n,m}? | Quantifier: between n and m |
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