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Greedy and non-greedy matching

<? $meats = "<b>Chicken</b>, <b>Beef</b>, <b>Duck</b>"; preg_match_all('@<b>.*?</b>@',$meats,$matches); foreach ($matches[0] as $meat) {     print "Meat A: $meat\n"; } preg_match_all('@<b>.*</b>@',$meats,$matches); foreach ($matches[0] as $meat) {     print "Meat B: $meat\n"; } ?>