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Re: RFE: Regular expression scan AND replace

I have used back-references in the replacement text - $1 gets you the first 1 - just tried in the search text.

This search text -

(r)[^r]+\1

got me strings that start with R and end with R and have at least 1 non-R in between. Case-insensitive in this case - heh!

So the marker for back reference is different for search text and for replacement text - backslash for search, dollar-sign for replacement

How crazy is that!

Vern


At least I THINK that is the syntax.

On 4/14/2016 3:32 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=86909

I just finished using Notepad++ to do a regular expression scan and
replace. Again. I wonder if I'm an outlier in the RDi community, or if
others miss the ability to use back references in a regular expression?



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