The support for named capture groups in Go's regular expressions is severely lacking, in the sense that it may as well not even exist. There's an API (SubexpNam

The support for named capture groups in Go's regular expressions is severely lacking, in the sense that it may as well not even exist. There's an API (SubexpNames) that returns an ordered list of the capture group names (if you provided them), but it's up to the user to implement some scheme for mapping a name to the contents of a capture group. At that point, it's probably going to be easier to just use the capture group indices.