Less greedy pattern match

Hi,
This question is regarding the less greedy regular expression pattern
match. As you know, Perl provides less greedy pattern match parameter
in the form of repetition?

But does gawk provide anything similar?

The sample I was trying was:

echo ccccccd | gawk '{ print match ($0,c*?d)

I was expecting value 6 as output but was always getting value 1.

(The above is only an example; my patterns are more complex and was
trying to find less greedy operators)

Thanks in adv,
Prateek