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Groups, captures and backreferences

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Split the date

Match a date written as four digits, a hyphen, two digits, a hyphen, two digits — the whole string and nothing more — and capture the year, the month and the day, in that order, as three separate groups.

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Every input, what the pattern matched in it, and what each group captured
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Trace

Select an input to step through what your pattern did to it.

Cmd-Enter submits too.