Grouping parentheses instead of capturing parentheses #443

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rebeka-catalina merged 3 commits from rct/d/NSFW_README_examples into master 2017-11-08 17:45:26 +01:00

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@ -47,7 +47,25 @@ done with a single regex, which matches all of them:
Another use case could be, that you are simply not Another use case could be, that you are simply not
interested in postings about christmas. interested in postings about christmas.
/christmas([-_ ]?(tree|time|eve|pudding))?/ /christmas(?:[-_ ]?(?:tree|time|eve|pudding))?/
ATTENTION:
It is absolutely important, that you use grouping
parentheses instead of capturing parentheses!!
Grouping parentheses are:
(?: )
If you use capturing parentheses, which are
( )
it will produce errors and the regex won't work and
at least your targets will not get collapsed.
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