.* special-character combination tries to match as much as possible : Metacharacters « Regular Expression « Perl






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.* special-character combination tries to match as much as possible

    

if the string banana is searched using the following pattern, the pattern 
matches banana, not ba or bana: 
/b.*a/ 

The .* character only matches the longest possible string that enables the pattern match as a whole to succeed.








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