[tpm] New Regex question - partially solved

Liam R E Quin liam at holoweb.net
Sun Oct 28 14:30:29 PDT 2012


On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 17:01 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 02:22 PM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
\
> > You're talking past one another, because Rob missed the word
> > "replacement" in the original note. I think Rob thought it was a
> > question about back-references, which indeed use \1 (or the extended
> > newer syntax).
> 
> please don't tell me what i was saying.
I'm not trying to do that - I'm sorry if it seemed that way.
>  he was using \1 in the 
> replacement and i kept saying replacement.

Yes. That is why I said you are talking past one another - yuo are each
saying things the other is not noticing. I was not criticising your perl
knowledge.

Liam

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