Regex non-capturing group is capturing

Question

I have this regex

(?:\\]*?)>

The point of this regex is to capture every closing ta

Answer 1

Rewrite your regex as :

(?:\]*?)(>)
   non capture __^^                                    ^ ^
                                             capture __|_|

As Tony Lukasavage said, there is an unnecessary non-capture group, and, moreover, there is no need to escape <, so it becomes:

  ]*?(>)
non capture __^^                                    ^ ^
                                          capture __|_|