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Actually: no. Analyse the regexp carefully, i will put in a few extra spaces for emphasis:
< \([^:]*:\)* mis>
So you have: <, which is simply a (fixed string of one) character and at the end...

That is not the reason at all. In fact you should read about (POSIX basic) regular expressions, because you obviously don't correctly understand how they work:

The asterisk ("*") makes the...

Yes, it doesn't work, because your search string is "<mis>" and what the file contains is "<val:mis>" (and "<seg>" instead of "<val:seg>", etc.). It is rather obvious that you find only what you...