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Perl » Regular Expression » Metacharacters

.* 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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