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Group pieces of a regex for readability or PCRE2 replacements.

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Section: Regex basics

Use capture groups in patterns

bash
bash
rg '(GET|POST|PUT|DELETE) /api/' server.log
Explanation

Even when not replacing, capture groups make complex patterns easier to reason about.

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