[tpm] New Regex question - partially solved

[Liam R E Quin]

On Sun, 2012-10-28 at 12:02 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 06:45 AM, Rob Janes wrote:
[...]
> please read the docs. you are greatly mistaken about \1 and $1.

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).

\1 does work in the replacement, and always has, because that's the
syntax ed used (and hence sed, ex, vi, and others).

But it's not a good idea, and these days $1 is preferred, I think we
also all agree on that. I a not sure when $ was introduced for the
replacement string, I think in Perl 4.

Liam

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