in reply to How to replace greedy alternation?

>echo 1b22a3d3ccccccccccccccc | perl -nle"/a/&&/b/&&/c/&&/d/ and print 'Matched: ', pack '(a1)4', m[([ +abcd])]g" Matched: badc

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