JMeter - Capture all the Matches and Write them into a file - jmeter

I have a regular expression which contains multiple matches (17 to be precise). All of these are to be captured and written to a file.
Match No. -1 is used to capture all the matches
Now, am using a ForEach Controller to iterate over these matches. Unfortunately, this doesn't work.
Please help. The screenshots are attached for your reference.
Regards,
Ajith
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There is a red 1 near to yellow exclamation sign in top-right corner of JMeter GUI which means that your test has failed somewhere somehow
so inspect jmeter.log file and see what went wrong.
JMeter Post-Processors are only executed in Sampler context, if you put a Post-Processor under the ForEach Controller and there will be no Samplers under that controller - the Post-Processor won't be executed. So I would suggest switching to JSR223 Sampler instead.
Writing data into a file using Groovy script might be not the best idea because if you run your test with >1 threads (users) you will face a race condition resulting in data corruption or loss so it might be a better option to consider using Sample Variables and Flexible File Writer

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