[email protected] TIL, through a meme (yep, memes can be very teaching, too), that I can reuse capture groups in a recurring manner inside a RegExp (I didn’t know about the \(number) thing, but I readily inferred, due to past experience with using \(number) in KDE Kate’s Regexp replace, it had something to do with “this position must contain the nth group verbatim”, opened the DevTools, tried .match with a fixed version of the meme’s regex (i.e. without the invalid spaces) and a random phone sequence my mind conjured out of thin air, and voilá, the slash-number thing indeed behaved as I guessed it would behave). So… Thanks to whoever made the meme because TIL thanks to you!
[email protected] TIL, through a meme (yep, memes can be very teaching, too), that I can reuse capture groups in a recurring manner inside a RegExp (I didn’t know about the
\(number)thing, but I readily inferred, due to past experience with using\(number)in KDE Kate’s Regexp replace, it had something to do with “this position must contain the nth group verbatim”, opened the DevTools, tried.matchwith a fixed version of the meme’s regex (i.e. without the invalid spaces) and a random phone sequence my mind conjured out of thin air, and voilá, the slash-number thing indeed behaved as I guessed it would behave). So… Thanks to whoever made the meme because TIL thanks to you!/^Be( )not\1(a)fr\2id$/(Biblically-accurate RegExp).