The problem is that is bound by your regex implementation and how it handled overlaps the search strings :). Fwiw many places will just go the next step of - we

The problem is that is bound by your regex implementation and how it handled overlaps the search strings :). Fwiw many places will just go the next step of - well implement the regex parsing then! But this is a dev perspective though. Am assuming a scripting answer might be good if the candidate knows about the actual regex behavior for devops.