From a35a162b1192087f7f241cbdb4512f1bf2c85645 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laura Luebbert <56094636+lauraluebbert@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 13:16:58 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update regex to (?=(ELM-REGEX)) to allow variable lengths

---
 gget/gget_elm.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gget/gget_elm.py b/gget/gget_elm.py
index 2e12893d..e41f2c1c 100644
--- a/gget/gget_elm.py
+++ b/gget/gget_elm.py
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ def regex_match(sequence):
 
     # Compare ELM regex with input sequence and return all matching elms
     for elm_id, pattern in zip(elm_ids, regex_patterns):
-        regex_matches = re.finditer(pattern, sequence)
+        regex_matches = re.finditer(f"(?=({pattern}))", sequence)
 
         for match_string in regex_matches:
             elm_row = df_elm_classes[df_elm_classes["Accession"] == elm_id]