Can anyone tell me how to make a regular expression "non-greedy". 

I.e. If I have the string "first list of words second another list of words
second" and I search for "first.*second", the Writer search function will
find "first list of words second another list of words second" - i.e. it is
"greedy". However, I only want to find "first list of words second". 

Some regular expression engines use the syntax "first.*?second" for
non-greedy searches. Can anyone tell me how OOo handles this?

Thanks

 

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