backreferences in PCRE?

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> I can't remember- are any of Rev's REGEX functions capable of doing 
> backreferences?

You might consider the (?<= ) "lookbehind" assertion.

Don't forget the start of the string, too.

If you might be matching over 800, see bugzilla 16.  Depending on the 
length of the match, there is a crash when matches get beyond some 
number.

Dar Scott