title: Regex - finding all 3 letter words - unexpected outcome
body: <p>Using regexpal.com to practice my regular expressions. I decided to start simply and ran into a problem.</p>
  
  <p>Say you want to find all 3 letter words.</p>
  
  <pre><code>\s\w{3}\s
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>\s - space</p>
  
  <p>\w - word characters</p>
  
  <p>{3} - 3 and only 3 of the previous character</p>
  
  <p>\s</p>
  
  <p>If I have two three letter words next to each other example " and the " only the first is selected. I thought that after a regex found a match it would go back one character and start searching for the next matching string. (In which case it would "find" both " and " &amp; " the ".</p>