07. Greediness (continued)

• No. There is nothing to "force" the "(.*)" to give up anything it has matched. The "(.*)" is greedy, and so it matches everything that it can, i.e. up to the end of the line, just as before. Then the second ".*" gets its turn to match, and finds only the end of the line, and so has to settle for matching nothing - which it can do, of course! (because "*" means 0 or more times - and 0 here works). So, nothing changes.
• But what if we changed the regex to:

    fanta(.*)drink
  

  ?
• Let's work through the example:
• First, the attempt to match f, then a, then .... etc. is tried. We'd end up matching:

    This isn't fantastic, let's drink fanta!
               ^^^^^
  

• Then, it's ".*"'s turn, and of course, it's greedy! So, it would end up matching:

    This isn't fantastic, let's drink fanta!
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  

• But, now we need to match a d! So, the ".*" is forced to give up some characters, resulting in the following:

    This isn't fantastic, let's drink fanta!
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  

• From here, the remaining 'd' and then "rink" part of the regex can match, giving the final match of:

    This isn't fantastic, let's drink fanta!
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  

• With the $1 containing (in between the quotes):

    "stic, let's "