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=Overview=
Perl's [[Regular Expressions Concepts#Flavor|flavor]] of regular expressions is relatively similar to [[Grep Regular Expressions#Overview|grep's]], but it has a richer set of [[Regular Expressions Concepts#Metacharacters| metacharacters]].


=Greedy/Reluctant=
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Overview

Perl's flavor of regular expressions is relatively similar to grep's, but it has a richer set of metacharacters.

Greedy/Reluctant

By default, the regular expressions are greedy.

To make then reluctant, use "*?".