A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The documentation for Matcher.group() does not mention that it can return null, however when using Matcher#usePattern after a successful match, the method will return null.


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Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("a").matcher("a");
matcher.find();
matcher.usePattern(Pattern.compile("pattern"));
System.out.println(matcher.group()); // returns null
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