diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/regex/RegexJVM.kt b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/regex/RegexJVM.kt
index c5b811697f2..d33c667ea6d 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/regex/RegexJVM.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/regex/RegexJVM.kt
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ public class Regex internal constructor(private val nativePattern: Pattern) {
      * @param startIndex An index to start search with, by default 0. Must be not less than zero and not greater than `input.length()`
      * @return An instance of [MatchResult] if match was found or `null` otherwise.
      */
-    public fun match(input: CharSequence, startIndex: Int = 0): MatchResult? = nativePattern.matcher(input).findNext(startIndex)
+    public fun match(input: CharSequence, startIndex: Int = 0): MatchResult? = nativePattern.matcher(input).findNext(startIndex, input)
 
     /**
      * Returns a sequence of all occurrences of a regular expression within the [input] string, beginning at the specified [startIndex].
@@ -216,38 +216,39 @@ public fun Pattern.toRegex(): Regex = Regex(this)
 
 // implementation
 
-private fun Matcher.findNext(from: Int): MatchResult? {
-    if (!find(from))
-        return null
+private fun Matcher.findNext(from: Int, input: CharSequence): MatchResult? {
+    return if (!find(from)) null else MatcherMatchResult(this, input)
+}
 
-    val matchResult = this.toMatchResult()
+private class MatcherMatchResult(private val matcher: Matcher, private val input: CharSequence) : MatchResult {
+    private val matchResult = matcher.toMatchResult()
+    override val range: IntRange
+        get() = matchResult.range()
+    override val value: String
+        get() = matchResult.group()
 
-    return object: MatchResult {
-        override val range: IntRange
-            get() = matchResult.range()
-        override val value: String
-            get() = matchResult.group()
+    override val groups: MatchGroupCollection = object : MatchGroupCollection {
+        override fun size(): Int = matchResult.groupCount() + 1
+        override fun isEmpty(): Boolean = false
+        override fun contains(o: Any?): Boolean = o is MatchGroup? && this.any({ it == o })
+        override fun containsAll(c: Collection<Any?>): Boolean = c.all({contains(it)})
 
-        override val groups: MatchGroupCollection = object : MatchGroupCollection {
-            override fun size(): Int = matchResult.groupCount() + 1
-            override fun isEmpty(): Boolean = false
-            override fun contains(o: Any?): Boolean = o is MatchGroup? && this.any({ it == o })
-            override fun containsAll(c: Collection<Any?>): Boolean = c.all({contains(it)})
-
-            override fun iterator(): Iterator<MatchGroup?> = indices.asSequence().map { this[it] }.iterator()
-            override fun get(index: Int): MatchGroup? {
-                val range = matchResult.range(index)
-                return if (range.start >= 0)
-                    MatchGroup(matchResult.group(index), range)
-                else
-                    null
-            }
+        override fun iterator(): Iterator<MatchGroup?> = indices.asSequence().map { this[it] }.iterator()
+        override fun get(index: Int): MatchGroup? {
+            val range = matchResult.range(index)
+            return if (range.start >= 0)
+                MatchGroup(matchResult.group(index), range)
+            else
+                null
         }
+    }
 
-
-        override fun next(): MatchResult? = this@findNext.findNext(matchResult.end() + if (matchResult.end() == matchResult.start()) 1 else 0)
+    override fun next(): MatchResult? {
+        val nextIndex = matchResult.end() + if (matchResult.end() == matchResult.start()) 1 else 0
+        return if (nextIndex <= input.length()) matcher.findNext(nextIndex, input) else null
     }
 }
 
+
 private fun java.util.regex.MatchResult.range(): IntRange = start()..end()-1
 private fun java.util.regex.MatchResult.range(groupIndex: Int): IntRange = start(groupIndex)..end(groupIndex)-1
diff --git a/libraries/stdlib/test/text/RegexTest.kt b/libraries/stdlib/test/text/RegexTest.kt
index 076689dba37..5e74ab486ca 100644
--- a/libraries/stdlib/test/text/RegexTest.kt
+++ b/libraries/stdlib/test/text/RegexTest.kt
@@ -54,6 +54,15 @@ class RegexTest {
         assertEquals(listOf(0..2, 4..6, 8..10), matches.map { it.range }.toList())
     }
 
+    test fun matchAllSequence() {
+        val input = "test"
+        val pattern = ".*".toRegex()
+        val matches = pattern.matchAll(input).toList()
+        assertEquals(input, matches[0].value)
+        assertEquals(input, matches.joinToString("") { it.value })
+        assertEquals(2, matches.size())
+    }
+
     test fun matchGroups() {
         val input = "1a 2b 3c"
         val pattern = "(\\d)(\\w)".toRegex()