What does ?= mean in a regular expression?

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?= is a positive lookahead, a type of zero-width assertion. What it’s saying is that the captured match must be followed by whatever is within the parentheses but that part isn’t captured.

Your example means the match needs to be followed by zero or more characters and then a digit (but again that part isn’t captured).

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