sbool positionalTokenIndex2_matchAll_debug;

// use "*" as wildcard
static L<Matches> positionalTokenIndex2_matchAll(S pat, PositionalTokenIndex2 idx) {
  LS tokPat = wordTok_plusAsterisk(pat);
  // get raw list from index
  LLS list = positionalTokenIndex2_filter(idx, tokPat);
  if (positionalTokenIndex2_matchAll_debug)
    print("positionalTokenIndex2_matchAll " + pat + " => " + list);
  new L<Matches> out;
  if (list == null) ret out;
  int n = l(tokPat), nAsterisks = countAsteriskTokens(tokPat);
  new Matches m;
  m.m = new S[nAsterisks];
  search: for (LS tok : list) {
    int iVars = 0;
    for (int i = 1; i < n; i += 2) {
      S t = tokPat.get(i);
      if (t.equals("*"))
        m.m[iVars++] = tok.get(i);
      else if (!eqic(t, tok.get(i)))
        continue search;
    }
    out.add(m);
    m = new Matches;
    m.m = new S[nAsterisks];
  }
  ret out;
}

Began life as a copy of #1025699