Basic regular expression help

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I am really new to regular expressions and am attempting to achieve the following.

From a string, find all groups that begin and end with <lvs> and </lvs>.

The string may contain multiple <lvs></lvs> groups. We don't care about anything inbetween.

For example: <lvs>first</lvs><lvs>second</lvs><lvs>third</lvs>

I have the following code.

String patternStr = "(<lvs>.+?</lvs>)+?";

// Compile and use regular expression
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternStr);
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
matcher.matches();

When I loop through the found groups i have two,
<lvs>first</lvs><lvs>second</lvs><lvs>third></lvs>
<lvs>third</lvs>

I am expecting
<lvs>first</lvs><lvs>second</lvs><lvs>third></lvs>
<lvs>first</lvs>
<lvs>second</lvs>
<lvs>third></lvs>

I understand that group at position 0 is the entire matched string, but for whatever reason the first and second groups aren't being found. I have been looking at the API docs and googling for the last couple hours. Could someone lend a hand?

[angryboy]

are you sure you are using matcher correctly?

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[COLOR=GREEN]/*
S:\>javac Test.java
S:\>java Test
0= <lvs>first</lvs><lvs>second</lvs><lvs>third</lvs>
1= <lvs>first</lvs>
2= <lvs>second</lvs>
3= <lvs>third</lvs>

*/[/COLOR]