What do the characters ((?:(?:(?: mean in pattern-matching? [duplicate]

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(?:...) denotes a non capturing group. ?: is used when you want to group an expression, but you want to avoid to return it as a matched/captured portion of the string.

The ^ does not mean negation when it is located outside square breackets. It means match from the beginning of the string.

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