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[high shadow]

Hello, does anyone know what "?:" does? The highlighted part of the text

[tidal carbon]

@high shadow

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[tired orbit]

It creates a non capturing group

[high shadow]

oh ok

So like, it's not saved?

[tired orbit]

it's not accessed as a group in the match object

it lets you group things together logically (useful for capturing things like repetitions) but it's not necessary as a capture group

[high shadow]

Ohhh I see

thank you

[tidal carbon]

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