Greedy vs non-greedy quantifiers

• In general, a quantifier will try an grab as many characters as possible in a match.

  	( $match ) = "abbbbc" =~ m/(b+)/; # sets match to "bbbb"

• You can have the match try to grab as few characters as possible to satisfy the match by tacking on ?:

  	( $match ) = "abbbbc" =~ m/(b+?)/; # sets match to "b"