Can I use an OR in regex without capturing what’s enclosed?

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Depending on the regular expression implementation you can use so called non-capturing groups with the syntax (?:…):

((?:a|b)c)

Here (?:a|b) is a group but you cannot reference its match. So you can only reference the match of ((?:a|b)c) that is either ac or bc.

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