How to use non-capturing groups in grep?

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This answer suggests that grep -P supports the (?:pattern) syntax, but it doesn't seem to work for me (the group is still captured and displayed as part of the match). Am I missing something?

I am trying grep -oP "(?:syntaxHighlighterConfig\.)[a-zA-Z]+Color" SyntaxHighlighter.js on this code, and expect the results to be:

wikilinkColor
externalLinkColor
parameterColor
...

but instead I get:

syntaxHighlighterConfig.wikilinkColor
syntaxHighlighterConfig.externalLinkColor
syntaxHighlighterConfig.parameterColor
...

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Solution 1 - Grep

"Non-capturing" doesn't mean that the group isn't part of the match; it means that the group's value isn't saved for use in back-references. What you are looking for is a look-behind zero-width assertion:

grep -Po "(?<=syntaxHighlighterConfig\.)[a-zA-Z]+Color" file
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