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Regular Expressions backreference feature
Submitted by sjoaquim on Thursday, 19 October, 2006 - 18:39
Hi, I've tried to use the standard backreference for regular expressions (\1) in the "Replace with:" field of jEdit's Search and Replace with no success. I also tried to use variations of the common sintax for most regex-oriented languages like Perl or Ruby, which is something like this:
s/<span id=\"([^\"]*)\">/Value is equal to \1/g
But had no success.

Do you know if jEdit implement a different kind of backreference or if it really doesn't implement it at all? If so, wouldn't it be nice to have it?

Thanks!
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Use $1 instead of \1. eg,
by Denyer on Sat, 21/10/2006 - 04:30
Use $1 instead of \1.

eg,

Text:
marker text marker

Search:
marker (.*?) marker

Replace:
newmarker $1 newmarker

Output:
newmarker text newmarker

Which suggests you either didn't try Perl backref syntax, or something's gone a bit wrong...
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