I use regex quite a bit for find and replace, and I want to use best practices as much as possible.

I understand the difference between the `+` and the `*` characters. [reference](http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html "Regular Expressions Referenece Sheet") `*` will find all the matches for specified phrase, and `+` will find all but the last instance of the specified phrase.

That being said, when I look up regex phrases on the internet, I see a lot of people using `+` where I feel they could be using `*`. Is the standard to use `+` instead of `*` on generic regex phrases or is there some convention I am missing?