Posted by freemont on 01/28/07 06:03

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:19:36 -0500, Jonathan N. Little writ:

> freemont wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:49:24 +0000, Toby Inkster writ:
>>
>>> s/^(.+)$/<li>\1<\/li>/g
>>
>> I don't understand the backslash-one in this. What does it do?
>
> Takes the "stuff" matching in the first part with the "()" and puts it
> in the second part at the "\1", but I think in Perl "$1" is preferred

Gotcha. Yes, $1 makes more sense to me. Thank you.

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