More user-friendly feedback for matchings text (e.g., a student's submission) with a set of required regular expressions

Note: Best practice is to not use greedy modifers in the regular expressions (or to make them non-greedy). This is because each of the regular expressions are searched against the student's submission independently. An example that illustrates this is:

Regular expressions:

• length.+as a number
• width.+as a number
• area is 6

Code:

length = float( input( 'Please enter the length as a number: ') )
width = float( input( 'Please enter the width as a number: ') )
area = length * width
print( 'The area is', area )

Student's Submission (with an input of 2 and 3):

Please enter the length as a number: Please enter the width as a number: The area is 6.0

Notice that because the submission is just stdout (and doesn't not contain the newlines from stdin) and therefore is just one line. This means that the feedback will be:

Annotated Matches View (2 of 3 matches found)
(Matches are uppercased and indicated with *** before and after the match)
==========================================================================
Please enter the ***LENGTH AS A NUMBER: PLEASE ENTER THE WIDTH AS A NUMBER***

Missing: width.+as a number

: The ***AREA IS 6***.0

Notice how the first regular expression greedily included what was intended to match for the second regular expression.