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Anonymous capturing group or numeric back reference

Reports anonymous capturing groups and numeric back references in a RegExp. These are only reported when the RegExp dialect supports named group and named group references. Named groups and named back references improve code readability and are recommended to use instead. When a capture is not needed, matching can be more performant and use less memory by using a non-capturing group, i.e. (?:xxx) instead of (xxx).

Example:

(\d\d\d\d)\1

A better regex pattern could look like this:

(?<quad>\d\d\d\d)\k<quad>

New in 2017.2

Inspection Details

Available in:

AppCode 2023.3, CLion 2023.3, DataGrip 2023.3, DataSpell 2023.3, GoLand 2023.3, IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, JetBrains Rider 2023.1, PhpStorm 2023.3, PyCharm 2023.3, Qodana for .NET 2023.1, Qodana for JS 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3, Qodana for PHP 2023.3, Qodana for Ruby 2023.3, RubyMine 2023.3, WebStorm 2023.3

Plugin:

IDEA CORE, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023