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Dumb Swift question: with the new built-in regex stuff, how do I just get a match as a string?
let input = "A cat walked"
let regex = /[a-z]{3}/
let match = input.firstMatch(of: regex)
I want "cat" as a string, but the result is of type Regex<Regex<Substring>.RegexOutput>.Match?
What do I do?
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