A Question Regarding Pattern Matching

[hadi]

Hello
I want to extract words from a string followed by a - .
for example in string : "sss-ddd-fff-" , i want the following groups :
1- "sss-"
2- "ddd-"
3- "fff-"

I wrote this regex for doing this : "((?:[^-]+)-)+"
But this isn't working as i said .
Could you explain what regex should i write for the mentioned task ? and what is the meaning of my
regex ?

thanks

[JavaHater]

in this simplest sense , you can just use this pattern

Pattern.compile("\\w+-");

[hadi]

That pattern doesn't capture any groups , i want groups like i said .

[JavaHater]

public class StringDemo{
    private static Pattern ex = Pattern.compile("\\w+-");
    private static Matcher match;
    public static void main(String[] args){
        String str = "sss-ddd-fff-";
        match = ex.matcher(str);
        while ( match.find() ){
             System.out.println( match.group()) ;
         }
    }
}

output

$ java StringDemo
sss-
ddd-
fff-

[hadi]

OK thanks javahater
match.groupCount(); was giving me 0 and i thought it didn't found any matches