Mark specific RegExp group, not whole match
See original GitHub issueIs your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Let’s say you have a string: “1) You have 12 points.” And you want to mark the number. But you don’t want to mark all numbers, only the one before word “points”.
Describe the solution you’d like
One solution could be adding a groupNumber: number
to the options
object which would specify a group from the regexp.
So one could write a regexp like /(\d+) points/
and pass 0
as a group number.
Additional context
Test in console:
"1) You have 12 points.".match(/(\d+) points/)[1]
PS: thank you for making this amazing library!
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Wow, the time flies 😃 I would still like to see a group number support. But no rush, I’m busy myself 😃
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