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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In modern languages you can name them with labels as well yes. Not sure about the syntax right now. Something like (?label:...) I think

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

It's (?<NAME>...) and those are the named capture groups referred to in the post.