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Feature: Named Capturing Groups

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A Named Capturing Group is a subexpression that can be captured and returned by the matching algorithm. A Named Capturing Group is also an Atom and can be repeated using Quantifiers and referenced using Backreferences by name.

Syntax

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NOTE: The following syntax is an example based on some of the supported engines. For specific engine support, see Engines.

Engines

Engine Supported
Perl
PCRE
Boost.Regex
.NET
Oniguruma
Hyperscan
ICU
Glib/GRegex
ECMAScript

See Also

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