Greedy Matching

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Early/late, long/short

Wendell Wubbell will wash the wild well in Walla Walla

Greedy Vim Example: /w.\+ll

Ungreedy universal (vim): /w[^wl]\+ll

Ungreedy Perl/Python: m/w.+?ll/

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