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Re: RFE: Regular expression scan AND replace

On 4/14/2016 5:12 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
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!

The things one learns.
Or remembers, having forgot.
Thank you!


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