Regular expression capturing a repeated group

Question

I am trying to parse input string using regular expression. I am getting problem when trying to capture a repeating group. I always seem to be matching last instance of the

Answer 1

When you repeat a capturing group in a regular expression, the capturing group only stores the text matched by its last iteration. If you need to capture multiple iterations, you'll need to use more than one regex. (.NET is the only exception to this. Its CaptureCollection provides the matches of all iterations of a capturing group.