nongreedy

English

Alternative forms

• non-greedy

Etymology

non- +‎ greedy

Adjective

nongreedy (not comparable)

1. (chiefly computing) Not greedy.
   • 2000, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl:

     In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy, minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.