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in thread Why is this regex greedy?

Thanks, but I have no shortage of correctly functioning regexes - I want to know precisely why the one listed doesn't work. chromatic knows.

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Re^3: Why is this regex greedy?
by mcogan1966 (Monk) on Jul 06, 2004 at 13:21 UTC
    It's simple, the  .+ is capturing everything.
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