Regex.find with too lose regex

[stoivo]

I was playing with Regex.find and I wanted to find all matches for [a-z0-9] so I wrote the regex ([a-z0-9]*).

I wrote it in Elm and ran it in the repl

> (Regex.find Regex.All (regex "([a-z0-9]*)") "simon er en banan en")
[{ match = "simon", submatches = [Just "simon"], index = 0, number = 1 }]
    : List Regex.Match

So this only return one match. I got some help, and after change the regex to [a-z0-9]+ instead of [a-z0-9]* witch now work like I wanted.

I started to wonder if this is a bug or not? I check what would happen if I tested in the browser.

"simon er en banan en".match(/([a-z0-9]*)/g) 
=> ["simon", "", "er", "", "en", "", "banan", "", "en", ""]

This is not exactly what I wanted but I think the elm method should return the same.

I checked a the source and found that Native/Regex.js#L34 is the line witch stops it from finding more matches. This line was added in https://github.com/elm-lang/core/pull/156 to stop a infinity loop.

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