Regexp.SubexpNames in Go

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SubexpNames returns the names of the parenthesized subexpressions in this Regexp. The name for the first sub-expression is names[1], so that if m is a match slice, the name for m[i] is SubexpNames()[i]. Since the Regexp as a whole cannot be named, names[0] is always the empty string. The slice should not be modified.

Go
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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"regexp"
)

func main() {
	re := regexp.MustCompile(`(?P<first>[a-zA-Z]+) (?P<last>[a-zA-Z]+)`)
	fmt.Println(re.MatchString("Alan Turing"))
	fmt.Printf("%q\n", re.SubexpNames())
	reversed := fmt.Sprintf("${%s} ${%s}", re.SubexpNames()[2], re.SubexpNames()[1])
	fmt.Println(reversed)
	fmt.Println(re.ReplaceAllString("Alan Turing", reversed))
}