backreferences in PCRE?
Dar Scott
dsc at swcp.com
Thu Nov 13 16:15:21 EST 2003
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
>> I can't remember- are any of Rev's REGEX functions capable of doing
>> backreferences?
>
> You might consider the (?<= ) "lookbehind" assertion.
>
> Don't forget the start of the string, too.
Yikes. I mean the negative assertion (?<! ). This should also take
care of the start.
So tinker with this:
replaceText(pStr, "(?<!\\)\\""e, "\""e)
Dar Scott
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