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Property (As Boolean )

aRegExOptions.Greedy = newBooleanValue
or
BooleanValue = aRegExOptions.Greedy

Supported for all project types and targets.

Greedy means the search finds everything from the beginning of the first delimiter to end of the last delimiter and everything in-between.

Notes

For example, say you want to match the following bold-tagged text in HTML:

The <b>quick</b> brown <b>fox</b> jumped

If you use this pattern:

<b>.+</b>

You end up matching "<b>quick</b> brown <b>fox</b>", which isn't what you wanted.

So, you can turn Greedy off or use this syntax:

<b>.+?</b>

and you will match "<b>quick</b>", which is exactly what you wanted.

The default is True.