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@@ -483,6 +483,9 @@ The special characters are:
some fixed length. Patterns which start with negative lookbehind assertions may
match at the beginning of the string being searched.
+.. _re-conditional-expression:
+.. index:: single: (?(; in regular expressions
+
``(?(id/name)yes-pattern|no-pattern)``
Will try to match with ``yes-pattern`` if the group with given *id* or
*name* exists, and with ``no-pattern`` if it doesn't. ``no-pattern`` is