Regular Expressions: Greedy vs. Lazy Matching and Lookarounds

Constructing performant regular expressions without falling into catastrophic backtracking.

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Quantifiers: Greedy, Lazy, and Possessive

Understand how .* differs from .*? and why possessive quantifiers prevent regex engine stack overflows.

Using positive (?=...) and negative (?!...) lookarounds to match context without including it in capture groups.

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