In the documentation for the Java Pattern class, I see that the exact quantifier X{n} has both greedy and reluctant forms: Greedy quantifiers X{n} X, exactly n times ... Reluctant qua...

I have always written regexes like this <A HREF="([^"]*)" TARGET="_blank">([^<]*)</A> but I just learned about this lazy thing and that I can write it like this <A HREF="(.*?)...