I found some interesting possibility in many regex engines:
It’s possible to place backreference inside the capture group and reference this group.
For example: (\1)
My question: for what regex patterns it may be used? I can’t imagine…
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There is an explanation for use of nested references, which I think clearly demonstrates the marginal usefulness of this feature.