Posted by John Dunlop on 12/20/05 21:31

Martin Lucas-Smith wrote:

> Is there any way to use backreferences _within_ a _pattern_, as works on
> some regexp parsing applications, i.e.
>
> '<a href="mailto:([^@]*)@([^"]*)">\\1@\\2</a>'
> =>
> '\\1@\\2'

Backreferences are obsolete in POSIX 1003.2. PCREs support them.

http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=7&topic=regex

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Jock

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