SPUG: Strange regex problem

[Lou Hevly]

At 09:04 22/09/00 -0700, Trevor Leffler wrote:
>SPUGers,
>
>  I'm working with a substitution regex that correctly does a
>substitution, but the $1, $2, etc. that I expect are empty when I use
>the //i and //g modifiers together. 

<snip>

Seems to work on Windows, AS v5.6.0:

C:\usr\site\lib>perl -e "$foo = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'; $foo =~ s/(hi)(.*)
(stu)/$3$2$1/gi; print \"$1, $3!\n$foo\n\""
hi, stu!
abcdefgstujklmnopqrhivwxyz

-- 
All the best (Adéu-siau),
Lou Hevly
lou at visca.com
http://www.visca.com

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