You can capture a regex pattern using grouping and use that group to search further or replace it by appending or prepending text to it. In the above screenshot, you can see that “Regex” is referred to as \1 and...

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This article aims to find the optimal way to search for a word in a folder containing multiple inner folders and a large set of files.

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