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> Then should i say that it is same as "*?", which is common in other popular
> languages ?

Strange that I had answered "Yes" and Little Bee (aka Petite Abeille)
answers later "No" to the same simple question !

Comparing Lua manual [1] with Perl manual [2] for non greedy
expressions really look the same for me.

[1] http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#6.4.1
[2] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Quantifiers