backreferences in PCRE?

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 13, 2003, at 2:15 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>  I mean the negative assertion (?<!  ).  This should also take care of 
> the start.
>
> So tinker with this:
>
> replaceText(pStr, "(?<!\\)\\"&quote, "\"&quote)

OK this works: replaceText(pStr, "(?<!\\)"&quote, "\"&quote)

Thanks Dar! I haven't used assertions much in regex. I'll keep an eye 
on the bug you mentioned. Although these are just small text chunks so 
I don't think it'll effect me.


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