diff --git a/velox/functions/lib/Re2Functions.cpp b/velox/functions/lib/Re2Functions.cpp
index ace6d0a6fa3f..a7f4b35b854d 100644
--- a/velox/functions/lib/Re2Functions.cpp
+++ b/velox/functions/lib/Re2Functions.cpp
@@ -144,14 +144,8 @@ bool re2Extract(
     }
   } else {
     const re2::StringPiece extracted = groups[groupId];
-    // Check if the extracted data is null.
-    if (extracted.data()) {
-      result.setNoCopy(row, StringView(extracted.data(), extracted.size()));
-      return !StringView::isInline(extracted.size());
-    } else {
-      result.setNull(row, true);
-      return false;
-    }
+    result.setNoCopy(row, StringView(extracted.data(), extracted.size()));
+    return !StringView::isInline(extracted.size());
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/velox/functions/lib/tests/Re2FunctionsTest.cpp b/velox/functions/lib/tests/Re2FunctionsTest.cpp
index a7d349243db9..67f0ec5a5522 100644
--- a/velox/functions/lib/tests/Re2FunctionsTest.cpp
+++ b/velox/functions/lib/tests/Re2FunctionsTest.cpp
@@ -369,9 +369,6 @@ void testRe2Extract(F&& regexExtract) {
   EXPECT_EQ(regexExtract(std::nullopt, "\\d+", 0), std::nullopt);
   EXPECT_EQ(regexExtract(" 123 ", std::nullopt, 0), std::nullopt);
   EXPECT_EQ(regexExtract(" 123 ", "\\d+", std::nullopt), std::nullopt);
-  // Group case that mismatch.
-  EXPECT_EQ(
-      regexExtract("rat cat\nbat dog", "ra(.)|blah(.)(.)", 2), std::nullopt);
 }
 
 TEST_F(Re2FunctionsTest, regexExtract) {