OT: regular expression matching multiple occurrences of one group

[Diez B. Roggisch]

pinkisntwell schrieb:
> How can I make a regular expression that will match every occurrence
> of a group and return each occurrence as a group match? For example,
> for a string "-c-c-c-c-c", how can I make a regex which will return a
> group match for each occurrence of "-c"?

Why is this flagged "OT"?

And in python, you can't do that. Groups are based upon the lexical 
structure of the regexp, and thus have a fixed number of groups.

Either use repetitive searches over the input, or postprocess the 
combined group by e.g. splitting it.

Diez