How do you use capturing groups with a short example?

Capturing groups in Perl allow you to extract specific portions of a string that match a certain pattern. They are created by placing parentheses around the part of the pattern you want to capture.

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        # Example of capturing groups in Perl
        
        my $string = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog";
        if ($string =~ /(\w+) (\w+)/) {
            print "First word: $1\n";  # Captured first word
            print "Second word: $2\n"; # Captured second word
        }