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If an alternative in a regular expression only matches things that are already matched by another alternative, that alternative is redundant and serves no purpose.
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In the best case this means that the offending subpattern is merely redundant and should be removed. In the worst case it's a sign that this regex does not match what it was intended to match and should be reworked.
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