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regexp/no-potentially-useless-backreference

⚠️ This rule warns in the ✅ plugin:regexp/recommended config.

disallow backreferences that reference a group that might not be matched

📖 Rule Details

If the referenced group of a backreference is not matched because some other path leads to the backreference, the backreference will trivially accept (e.g. /(?:(a)|b)\1/). The same will happen if the captured text of the referenced group was reset before reaching the backreference.

This will not handle backreferences that always trivially accept. Use regexp/no-useless-backreference for that.

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❤️ Compatibility

This rule was taken from eslint-plugin-clean-regex.
This rule is compatible with clean-regex/no-potentially-empty-backreference rule.

🚀 Version

This rule was introduced in eslint-plugin-regexp v0.9.0

🔍 Implementation