Capturing a pattern of unknown repitition in PCRE

Question

This may be a quick question for experienced regular expressionists, but I\'m having trouble getting my match to execute correctly.

Suppose I had a string that looke

Answer 1

No, it is not possible to match an unknown number of capture groups.

If you try to repeat a capture group, it will always contain the last value captured.

Could you explain a bit more broadly what you're trying to do? Perhaps there is another simple way to do it (possibly without regular expressions).