You can use backreferences \1 \2 etc. but you can also give them names explicitly.
it looks like this: (?<name>inner-regex)
Some flavors support it, kotlins doesn’t apparently.
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Can you actually name capture groups, or this means how you can refer to them by number?
In modern languages you can name them with labels as well yes. Not sure about the syntax right now. Something like (?label:…) I think
It’s
(?<NAME>...)and those are the named capture groups referred to in the post.You can use backreferences
\1 \2etc. but you can also give them names explicitly.it looks like this:
(?<name>inner-regex)Some flavors support it, kotlins doesn’t apparently.
TIL thanks!