backreferences in PCRE?

[Alex Rice]

On Nov 13, 2003, at 3:10 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
> Alex, it seems you can't backreference in the replacement expression 
> as in Perl, but you can in the "find" expression, using "\1", "\2", 
> etc.

OK

> In Perl, I don't think the $1, $2, etc. in the replacement expression 
> are strictly regular expression  elements. They are really special 
> Perl variables. For example, you can use $1 at anytime after a match 
> and it will still hold the matched value.. However, it would be nice 
> to have this ability in Rev, but I don't think $1, etc, would work as 
> it would clash with Rev's environment variables.

Yep I think you are right.

Thanks,

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