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Capture, Reuse 90Mary asked: "What in the world?".James yelled: "Hello!".Mary responded: "Goodbye!".Using parentheses without capturingWhat if we want to use parentheses just as a way to maintain order of operations?To make a set of parentheses non-capturing, simply add a question-mark and colon immediatelyafter the left-brace:(?:this-pattern-isnt-captured)(this is captured)Note: To re-emphasize, these symbols must show up one after the other in that exact order.Ergo: (?:x) is not at all the same as: ( ?:x)Given this text:1. J.R. Ewing2. A.C. Thompson3. T.A.L. GlassAnd wanting to change it to:1. Ewing2. Thompson3. SmithThe pattern we seek to match is:• A number followed by a period (captured)• A series of uppercase letters, each followed by a period (but not captured)• A string of word-characters (captured)This is the Find-and-Replace:Find (\d+.) ([A-Z].)+ (\w+)