[San-Diego-pm] Text substitution

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Fentin <joel at fentin.com> writes:

Joel> Kevin Berggren wrote:
>> What about
>> 
>> $Text =~ s/($SearchFor)/<b>$1<\/b>/gi;
>> 
>> -kb

Joel> Menolly wrote:
>> Use a backreference:
>> $Text =~ s/($SearchFor)/<b>\1<\/b>/gi;
>> 

No.  Use $1 in a replacement, not \1.  \1 is for backward compatibility, and
fails if you have more than 9 replacement items (\10 is always a control-H).

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