== Why is this an issue?

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=== Noncompliant code example
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/Jack|Peter|/.test('John'); // Noncompliant - returns 'true'
/Jack||Peter/.test('John'); // Noncompliant - returns 'true'
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=== Compliant solution
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/Jack|Peter/.test('John'); // returns 'false'
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=== Exceptions

One could use an empty alternation to make a regular expression group optional. Rule will not report on such cases.

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/mandatory(-optional|)/.test('mandatory'); // returns 'true'
/mandatory(-optional|)/.test('mandatory-optional'); // returns 'true'
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However, if there is a quantifier after the group the issue will be reported as using both `|` and quantifier is redundant.

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/mandatory(-optional|)?/.test('mandatory'); // Noncompliant - using both `|` inside the group and `?` for the group.
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