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Since by default groups are Capturing Groups, you need a way to ignore some groups in the resulting array. This is possible using Noncapturing Groups, which start with an (?:...)
'123s'.match(/^(\d{3})(?:\s)(\w+)$/)
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'123 s'.match(/^(\d{3})(?:\s)(\w+)$/)
//Array [ "123 s", "123", "s" ]Lessons in this unit:
| 0: | Introduction |
| 1: | Introduction |
| 2: | Anchoring |
| 3: | Match Items in Ranges |
| 4: | Matching a Range Item Multiple Times |
| 5: | Negating a Pattern |
| 6: | Meta Characters |
| 7: | Regular Expressions Choices |
| 8: | Quantifiers |
| 9: | Optional Items |
| 10: | Groups |
| 11: | Capturing Groups |
| 12: | Using match and exec Without Groups |
| 13: | ▶︎ Noncapturing Groups |
| 14: | Flags |
| 15: | Inspecting a Regex |
| 16: | Escaping |
| 17: | String Boundaries |
| 18: | Replacing |
| 19: | Greediness |
| 20: | Lookaheads |
| 21: | Lookbehinds |
| 22: | Unicode |
| 23: | Unicode Property Escapes |
| 24: | Examples |