Kotlin Regex named groups support

Question

Does Kotlin have support for named regex groups?

Named regex group looks like this: (?...)

Answer 1

According to this discussion,

This will be supported in Kotlin 1.1. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-12753

Kotlin 1.1 EAP is already available to try.

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"""(\w+?)(?\d+)""".toRegex().matchEntire("area51")!!.groups["num"]!!.value

You'll have to use kotlin-stdlib-jre8.