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About
A quantifier defines the number of times that:
character
class of character
grouped
(or not)
may be seen.
Algorithm / Behaviors
It has three behaviors:
a
Greedy
one: match longest possible string. This is the default regular expression behavior.
a
Lazy
one: match shortest possible string. Match as few as possible, repeat as few times as possible
a
Possessive
one.