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Regex flavors (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Can you actually name capture groups, or this means how you can refer to them by number?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

TIL thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In modern languages you can name them with labels as well yes. Not sure about the syntax right now. Something like (?label:...) I think

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's (?<NAME>...) and those are the named capture groups referred to in the post.