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Greedy vs Nongreedy - What's the difference?

greedy | nongreedy |

As adjectives the difference between greedy and nongreedy

is that greedy is having greed; consumed by selfish desires while nongreedy is not greedy.

greedy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”}}
  • Prone to overeat.
  • (computing) Tending to match as much text as possible.

    • Synonyms

    * gluttonous * See also

    Derived terms

    * greed (by back-formation) * greediness * greedy-guts

    External links

    * *

    Anagrams

    * (l)

    nongreedy

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (chiefly, computing) Not greedy.
  • * 2000 , Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl
    • In modern versions of Perl, you can force nongreedy , minimal matching by placing a question mark after any quantifier.