Greedy quantifiers
examples/regex/greedy.py
import re match = re.search(r'xa*', 'xaaab') print(match.group(0)) match = re.search(r'xa*', 'xabxaab') print(match.group(0)) match = re.search(r'a*', 'xabxaab') print(match.group(0)) match = re.search(r'a*', 'aaaxabxaab') print(match.group(0))
They match 'xaaa', 'xa' and '' respectively.