How to prevent regex from stopping at the first match of alternatives ?
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If I have the string hello world , how can I modify the regex world|wo|w so that it will match all of "world", "wo" and "w" rather than just the single first match of "world" that it comes to ?
If this is not possible directly, is there a good workaround ? I'm using C# if it makes a difference:
Regex testRegex = new Regex("world|wo|w");
MatchCollection theMatches = testRegex.Matches("hello world");
foreach (Match thisMatch in theMatches)
{
...
}
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