Bug #5947 ยป 0002-docs-spelling-on-doc-re-rdoc.patch
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necessary for overall success. A greedy metacharacter can be made lazy by
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following it with <tt>?</tt>.
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# Both patterns below match the string. The fist uses a greedy
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# Both patterns below match the string. The first uses a greedy
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# quantifier so '.+' matches '<a><b>'; the second uses a lazy
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# quantifier so '.+?' matches '<a>'.
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/<.+>/.match("<a><b>") #=> #<MatchData "<a><b>">
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