How do I use RegEx to pick longest match?

Question

I tried looking for an answer to this question but just couldn\'t finding anything and I hope that there\'s an easy solution for this. I have and using the following code i

Answer 1

Regular expressions (will try) to match patterns from left to right. If you want to make sure you get the longest possible match first, you'll need to change the order of your patterns. The leftmost pattern is tried first. If a match is found against that pattern, the regular expression engine will attempt to match the rest of the pattern against the rest of the string; the next pattern will be tried only if no match can be found.

String pattern = ("(hello world|hello wor|hello)");