How to make Regular expression into non-greedy?

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The non-greedy regex modifiers are like their greedy counter-parts but with a ? immediately following them:

*  - zero or more
*? - zero or more (non-greedy)
+  - one or more
+? - one or more (non-greedy)
?  - zero or one
?? - zero or one (non-greedy)

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