Today was bit easy again when you use a reluctant ...

# advent-of-code

[karelpeeters]

Today was bit easy again when you use a reluctant regex modifier for the garbage.

[stkent]

What do you mean by "reluctant regex modifier", exactly? Is that indicated by the ? in <.*?>?

[karelpeeters]

Yup! Normally * is greedy, meaning it takes as much of the input as possible, and that would be problematic in a string like "{<abc>}<abc>". Using *? makes it take as little of the input as possible.

[stkent]

Nice, thanks!