backreferences in PCRE?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu Nov 13 17:51:50 EST 2003


> In transcript I thought it should be :
> 
> replaceText(pStr, "([^\\])"&quote, "$1\"&quote)
> 
> Which works *except* for the $1 is used literally instead of as a 
> backreference.

That's because only the second parameter of replaceText() is a match
expression; the third param is a simple string.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 




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