A greedy qualifier : Greedy « Regular Expressions « Java Tutorial

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import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    String regex = "(\\w+)(\\d\\d)(\\w+)";

    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex);

    String candidate = "AAA99SuperJava";

    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(candidate);

    matcher.find();

    System.out.println(matcher.group(1));
    System.out.println(matcher.group(2));
    System.out.println(matcher.group(3));
  }
}
/*
*/

AAA
99
SuperJava