Use Sublime Text find to highlight a regex group in search pattern

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Is there a way to make Sublime Text highlight (match) only part of a regex search pattern?

For example, I want to exclusively highlight Text when searching for Some(Text).

user193661 · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-01 16:27:00Z

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Difficulty in getting a regex application to work will probably have a regex solution. In this case, lookarounds.

Example using a lookbehind:

answered Oct 1, 2015 at 16:27

user193661

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In order to match (Text), you need to escape the parentheses so the regex should be (?<=Some)\(Text\)
– NonlinearFruit
Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 15:29
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@NonlinearFruit as I interpret OP's intention, that's the regex put in search box, thus this solution is probably correct, no reason to downvote it
– SΛLVΘ
Commented Nov 23, 2015 at 10:04

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user525234 · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-23 09:41:18Z

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You can use:

(?<=preceeding_enclosing_text)your_searched_text(?=following_enclosing_text)

In your particular example:

(?<=Some\().+?(?=\))

answered Nov 23, 2015 at 9:41

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