Regex to capture unknown number of repeated groups

Question

I\'m try to write a regular expression to use in a Java program that will recognize a pattern that may appear in the input an unknown number of times. My silly little exampl

Answer 1

^{(Similar question: Regular expression with variable number of groups?)}

This is not possible. Your best alternative is to use h.t, and use a

while (matcher.find()) {
    ...
    ... matcher.group(1); ...
    ...
}

The feature does exist in .NET, but as mentioned above, there's no counterpart in Java.