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    > Will a regex of the form .*c ever match differently 
> from [^c]*c, and if not, why doesn't the regex parser 
> optimize it to the later form? What if the first was .*?c
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    1. m/(.*c)/ && print $1;
2. m/([^c]*c)/ && print $1;
3. m/(.*?c)/ && print $1;