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in reply to Re: Regex backreference without capture (?&NAME) NamedCapture
in thread Regex backreference without capture

E.g. the input is "bogus firstblAHj?keblOWthird bogus", and pattern is 'bl..', then it matches both, but OP would like to match only the same :)