How to capture an arbitrary number of groups in JavaScript Regexp?

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I would expect this line of JavaScript:

"foo bar baz".match(/^(\s*\w+)+$/)

to return something like:

["foo bar baz", "foo", " bar", " baz"]

but instead it returns only the last captured match:

["foo bar baz", " baz"]

Is there a way to get all the captured matches?

capturing-group repeat javascript regex
5 Answers

You can use LAZY evaluation. So, instead of using * (GREEDY), try using ? (LAZY)

REGEX: (\s*\w+)?

RESULT:

Match 1: foo

Match 2: bar

Match 3: baz

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