Standard Library

[Thierry Douez]

2014-08-13 10:45 GMT+02:00 Charles E Buchwald <charles at buchwald.ca>:
> Hi Thierry,
>
> Do you mean if I put this in the message box, making the replacements you suggest:
>     put replaceText("abcd","(ab)(cd)","\2\1")
>
> I should get:
>     cdab
>
> Because I get:
>     \2\1
>
> What am I missing?

Umm, well, I was trying to say that this is *not* implemented in Livecode,
and the link to the engine contributor forum was to show that I wanted
to do it a few mmonths ago...

You can use back references in the *pattern matching text*,
but not in the replacement text.

Sounds better?

Thierry