Regular expression match issue

Question

I have a simple regular expression: .} and some simple text: {}}

Why do I get a single match:

• {}

I was expecting to get two:

• {}
• }}

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Answer 1

Regex matches are non-overlapping. Maybe some like this is closer to what you want:

/(?=})}/g

I think you actually want look behind not look ahead but this isn't supported on regexr.com because it's not supported in java script

/(?<=})}/g