nongreedy

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nongreedy

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From non- + greedy.

adjective non-greedy

not comparable Not greedy. In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.

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@misc{nongreedy_2026,
  title = {nongreedy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nongreedy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}