regex problem

[Kaveh Bazargan]

The following line returns true as expected:

*put* matchtext("abc", "^[ ]*")
(zero or more spaces at start of string)

But the following:

*put* replacetext("abc", "^[ ]*", "~")
returns

"abc", not "~abc" as expected.

Any ideas?
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