I am trying to get a regular expression to find multiple entries of my pattern on a line. Note: I\'ve been using Regex for about an hour... =/
I have a regular expression: (<select([^>]*>))(.*?)(</select\\s*>) Since it uses lazy repeat quantifier, for longer strings(having options more than 500) it backtracks for more than
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I\'d like to port a generic text processing tool, Texy!, from PHP to Java. This tool does ungreedy matching everywhere, using preg_match_all(\"/.../U\").