Secret regex bug correction

detect_secrets/plugins/keyword.py

@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@
 OPTIONAL_NON_WHITESPACE = r'[^\s]{0,50}?'
 QUOTE = r'[\'"`]'
 # Secret regex details:
-#   [^\v\'"]*   ->  this section match with every character except line breaks and quotes. This
-#                   allows to find secrets that starts with symbols or alphanumeric characters.
+#   (?=[^\v\'"]*)   ->  this section match with every character except line breaks and quotes. This
+#                       allows to find secrets that starts with symbols or alphanumeric characters.
 #
-#   \w+         ->  this section match only with words (letters, numbers or _ are allowed), and at
+#   (?=\w+)     ->  this section match only with words (letters, numbers or _ are allowed), and at
 #                   least one character is required. This allows to reduce the false positives
 #                   number.
 #
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 #   [^\v,\'"`]  ->  this section match with the last secret character that can be everything except
 #                   line breaks, comma, backticks or quotes. This allows to reduce the false
 #                   positives number and to prevent errors in the code snippet highlighting.
-SECRET = r'[^\v\'\"]*\w+[^\v\'\"]*[^\v,\'\"`]'
+SECRET = r'(?=[^\v\'\"]*)(?=\w+)[^\v\'\"]*[^\v,\'\"`]'
 SQUARE_BRACKETS = r'(\[\])'
 
 FOLLOWED_BY_COLON_EQUAL_SIGNS_REGEX = re.compile(