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=== Noncompliant code example

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<.+?>
".*?"
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=== Compliant solution

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<[^>]++>
"[^"]*+"
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or


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<[^>]+>
"[^"]*"
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=== Exceptions

This rule only applies in cases where the reluctant quantifier can easily be replaced with a negated character class. That means the repetition has to be terminated by a single character or character class. Patterns such as the following, where the alternatives without reluctant quantifiers are more complicated, are therefore not subject to this rule:


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<!--.*?-->
/\*.*?\*/
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