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, "([^\\])""e, "$1\""e)
>
> 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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