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Matched:'abc clothes','.mall abc something doing shopping at the .mallabc'

I expected it to match :"abc abcabc"

And I opened a new thread not knowing if I will get an answer ,sorry :D

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Re^3: Working with files
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 18, 2016 at 12:41 UTC

    If you change the middle quantifier from non-greedy to greedy, it will try to match the longest possible part.

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