Regex: How to capture a group that is followed by '+' (greedy plus)?

Question

Just say I have the following text to be processed by regex:

  red red red blue

To match the text, I use the following regex:

  (red\s*)+(blue)

Now, my question is that how to capture the first groups (not the first group) ?

Answer 1

Just add parenthesis around what you want to capture, in this case the whole +ed group:

((red\s*)+)(blue)