This normally isn't the desired result. Very clear and helpful.At the beginning of "The Longest Match and Shortest Match… ", you are using "greedy" twice. So the first thing we do is we import the re module, since we're dealing with regular expressions. When it becomes impossible to consume more (no more digits or string end), then it continues to match the rest of the pattern. By default, Perl regular expressions are greedy, meaning they will match as much data as possible before a new line. So it takes the whole thing.

If you're familiar with HTML, you know that we're making an unordered list of items.
{START} Mary {END}00A {START} little lamb {END}01B Thank you very much for reporting this typo. I am assuming that you mean "greedy" first and then "lazy".Bonjour Claude, li tag. Python.

So, the code is very similar to greedy matching, except we add a question mark (?) It will be "greedy" and grab the first to the last li tags from the above string. Greedy matching will grab all of the li tags and return them as if a single unit. For example, the regex 'a+' will match as many 'a' s as possible in your string 'aaaa' . Quantifiers and Empty Matches Instead, what is desired in an instance like this is use lazy matching. Kindest regards, metacharacter, which matches any character. after the asterisk. So it will grab the first li tag and For instance, \d+ consumes all possible digits.

Lazy matching grabs a
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        " and then lazy matching, so that you know from a practical point of view. This is also a regular expression of java programming language which performs the Greedy search or matching from the given string or the content of the file. This is greedy matching, when the program takes the whole code (all the li tags) and grabs them as if a single :) So this is greedy vs. lazy matching in Python and how to perform each with regular expressions.
        grab the first to the last li tags from the above string. So you can see now that we now have the more desired result. Even if the conditions of the regular expression have been met, but a line break has not yet occurred, the regular expression will continue searching for data that satisfies the search criteria. A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp; also referred to as rational expression) is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern.Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings, or for input validation.It is a technique developed in theoretical computer science and formal language theory. To summarize, a greedy quantifier takes as much as it can get, and a non-greedy quantifier takes as little as possible (in both cases only while still allowing the entire regex to succeed). Because by default a quantifier is greedy, the engine starts out by matching as many of the quantified token as it can swallow. We then have a variable, regex, which we set equal to, re.compile("
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        They most commonly return different results when they are used with the wildcard (.) Note that Java will require that you escape the opening braces: Thanks so much for writing this. However, since it's greedy matching, it returns the first li tag on the page and the last li tag on the page Greedy matching is shown in the following code below. But if the quantified token has matched so many characters that the rest of the pattern can not match, the engine will backtrack to the quantified token and make it give … The asterisk (*) is greedy and will grab the largest possible match. Our code grabs each individual
      • tag and not the whole thing. Let's say we have the following string in Python, shown below:

        A greedy match means that the regex engine (the one which tries to find your pattern in the string) matches as many characters as possible. I spent last week entirely rewriting that page, so it's still fresh and I rely on kind readers like you to let me know about little bugs. In most cases, regular expressions with greedy and lazy quantifiers return the same matches. We then have a variable, matches, which we set equal to re.findall(regex,string1). Greedy matching will grab all of the li tags and return them as if a single unit. It will not, like greedy matching, grab the first
      • tag and the furthest (or last)
        • tag. First, let's understand the terms, greedy and lazy matching.