I have a Python regular expression that contains a group which can occur zero or many times - but when I retrieve the list of groups afterwards, only the last one is present. Example:
re.search("(\\w)*", "abcdefg").groups
()
this returns the list ('g',)
I need it to return ('a','b','c','d','e','f','g',)
Is that possible? How can I do it?
re.findall(r"\w","abcdefg")
In addition to Douglas Leeder's solution , here is the explanation:
In regular expressions the group count is fixed. Placing a quantifier behind a group does not increase group count (imagine all other group indexes increment because an eralier group matched more than once).
Groups with quantifiers are the way of making a complex sub-expression atomic, when there is need to match it more than once. The regex engine has no other way than saving the last match only to the group. In short: There is no way to achieve what you want with a single "unarmed" regular expression, and you have to find another way.
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