java regex quantifiers

Question

I have a string like

String string = \"number0 foobar number1 foofoo number2 bar bar bar bar number3 foobar\";

I need a regex to give me th

Answer 1

because .* is a greedy pattern. use .*? instead of .*

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("number\\d+(.*?)(number\\d+)");
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string);
while(matcher.find();){
    out(matcher.group());
}