Learn Java Programming - Regex Greedy Quantifiers Tutorial

There are three different groupings of quantifiers: greedy, reluctant, and possessive. This tutorial is all about greedy quantifiers. What is difference between greedy, reluctant, and possessive quantifiers? The answer is found by studying how the regex engine processes the search string. By default, quantifiers are considered to be greedy. Before I go any further, let me quickly go over the six different types of of greedy quantifiers.

[hydara.r.]

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[michellelei]

in the Mississippi example, why do you have \\w instead of \w. wouldn't \\w make it actually mean \w? like Mi\w\wi ?