Special Characters: Capturing and Non-Capturing Groups
Explore the difference between capturing and non-capturing groups in JavaScript regular expressions. Understand how to capture specific parts of a match for reuse or organize patterns without capturing. Learn to apply these groups to extract hostnames from URLs, enhancing your pattern building and data parsing skills.
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Introduction
Groups are an incredibly useful part of regular expressions because they allow you to grab a portion of the matching pattern and use it in your code logic or reference it while doing a string replacement.
The groups you can grab and reference later are called capturing groups, which, as the name suggests, means you’re able ...