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``How do I match a double-quoted string?''
/"[^"]*"/
"If I were your husband," he replied, "I should drink it."
Starting in 5.6.0, .* and .*? got an optimization
As a result, there is no longer much difference between these examples
However, the difference still holds for more complicated cases
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