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Edmontonian on Nov 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Regex Crossword

so in your first example, "AB" was in the capture group and the \1 repeats it?

tlrobinson on Nov 30, 2014 [–]

Correct. The following

    (.*)\1+

Would also match "ABABAB", for example.

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