Editing Regular expression (section)

===Lazy matching===
In Python and some<!---should be 'many', or 'most', or 'a few', or ...?---> other implementations (e.g. Java), the three common quantifiers (<code>*</code>, <code>+</code> and <code>?</code>) are [[greedy algorithm|greedy]] by default because they match as many characters as possible.<ref name=py-re>{{cite web |title=Regular Expression Syntax |url=https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax |website=Python 3.5.0 documentation |publisher=[[Python Software Foundation]] |access-date=10 October 2015 |archive-date=18 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718132241/https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax}}</ref> The regex <code>".+"</code> (including the double-quotes) applied to the string

"Ganymede," he continued, "is the largest moon in the Solar System."

matches the entire line (because the entire line begins and ends with a double-quote) instead of matching only the first part, <code>"Ganymede,"</code>. The aforementioned quantifiers may, however, be made ''lazy'' or ''minimal'' or ''reluctant'', matching as few characters as possible, by appending a question mark: <code>".+?"</code> matches only <code>"Ganymede,"</code>.<ref name="py-re"/>