Yes.

What does that gain, though, over .*?? Is it more efficient, or is it simply avoiding the "problem" by coding round it?

Also, to reliably detect a closing tag, you need to match </. There's nothing to stop "<" from appearing in the data (in fact, it's likely for limits we impose locally on credit). The .* construct would have correctly matched "<" without terminating, and continued to match up until it found the </ of a closing tag.

I don't think I'm convinced that the alternative you suggest would have the same effect on the data, and the data that got grabbed as the .*.

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