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Disable capture in Elixir Regex

Today I came across a regex that had to use the ( parenthesis to match a sequence of chars but I wanted just to match them, so I'd love if I could ignore that piece from the "capture" part.

So I learned that we could use ?: in the beginning of the ( and that would turn the capture off for that piece. Check this out;

iex> Regex.scan(~r/aa(bb)(?:cc|CC)/, "aabbccdd aabbCCdd")
[["aabbcc", "bb"], ["aabbCC", "bb"]]

In this case I am matching and capturing the bb sequence and I am matching but not capturing the cc|CC sequence options.

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