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Expand Up @@ -211,6 +211,11 @@ They met on 24/01/1970.
When referring to a matched portion of text,
names work like aliases in addition to direct numbers.
)
$(REG_ROW \1$(COMMA) \2 ..., Backreference: matches the same text most
recently captured by the capturing group with that number. Groups are
numbered from 1 by the position of their opening parenthesis. A
multi-digit reference such as \12 denotes group 12 when at least that
many capturing groups precede it. )
$(REG_TITLE Assertions, Match position rather than character )
$(REG_ROW ^, Matches at the beginning of input or line (in multiline mode).)
$(REG_ROW $, Matches at the end of input or line (in multiline mode). )
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