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 will, through backtracing, successfully match the literal.
 
-```text
-A
-..?
-B
-C
-..*
-D
-E
-```
-
 There are two reasons why you should default to using `..?` rather than `..*`.
 Most obviously `..?` does not backtrack and has linear performance. Less
 obviously `..?` prevents literals from matching when they contain multiple