nongreedy

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Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ greedy

Adjective[edit]

nongreedy (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly computing) Not greedy.
    • 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:
      In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.
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