一些优点:

[^>]*:

• 更具表现力.
• 捕获换行符而与/s标志无关.
• 考虑更快，因为引擎不必回溯即可找到成功的匹配项(使用[^>]引擎不会做出选择-我们仅提供一种将模式与字符串进行匹配的方法).
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• More expressive.
• Captures newlines regardless of /s flag.
• Considered quicker, because the engine doesn't have to backtracks to find a successful match (with [^>] the engine doesn't make choices - we give it only one way to match the pattern against the string).

.*?

• 没有代码重复"-结束字符仅出现一次.
• 在结束定界符超过一个字符长的情况下更简单. (在这种情况下，字符类将不起作用)常见的替代方法是(?:(?!END).)*.如果END分隔符是另一种模式，则情况更糟.

• No "code duplication" - the end character only appears once.
• Simpler in cases the end delimiter is more than a character long. (a character class would not work in this case) A common alternative is (?:(?!END).)*. This is even worse if the END delimiter is another pattern.