Re: RFE: Regular expression scan AND replace

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have used back-references in the replacement text - $1 gets you the 
first 1 - just tried in the search text.

This search text -

     (r)[^r]+\1

got me strings that start with R and end with R and have at least 1 
non-R in between. Case-insensitive in this case - heh!

So the marker for back reference is different for search text and for 
replacement text - backslash for search, dollar-sign for replacement

How crazy is that!

Vern


At least I THINK that is the syntax.

On 4/14/2016 3:32 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=86909
>
> I just finished using Notepad++ to do a regular expression scan and
> replace.  Again.  I wonder if I'm an outlier in the RDi community, or if
> others miss the ability to use back references in a regular expression?