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By Stephen Chapman, About.com Guide to JavaScript

Greedy, Reluctant and Possessive

Sunday December 27, 2009
Control how your regular expressions try to match the content

Sometimes you want to find the longest possible matching string and sometimes you want the shortest possible matching string. The ninth tutorial on Regular Expressions covers how to set the pattern to return the one you want.

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