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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago