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+## Regular Expressions
+
+Zsh supports regular expression matching with the binary operator `=~`.
+The match results can be accessed via the `$MATCH` variable and
+`$match` indexed array:
+- `$MATCH` contains the full match
+- `$match[1]` contains match of the first capture group
+
+```zsh
+INPUT='title foo : 1234'
+REGEX='^title (.+) : ([0-9]+)$'
+if [[ $INPUT =~ $REGEX ]]; then
+ echo "$MATCH" # title foo : 1234
+ echo "$match[1]" # foo
+ echo "$match[2]" # 1234
+fi
+```
+
## Completion
### Installation