Re: backrefs in regexps?

[Tim Nelson]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, martin f krafft wrote:

> > >         In this e-mail, you may find that it works if you use \1 instead
> > >         of $1. If not, you'll need to do some more reading.
>
> It does not. It seems that cfengine is not capable of back
> referencing in the replacement text. Neither \1, $1, ${1}, $(1), or &
> work.

        Ouch.  My apologies.

> This is sad.

	I agree.  However, one of the beauties of cfengine is that the 
code is pretty readable.  I suspect that by looking at the GlobalReplace 
function in item-ext.c, and the "regexec" man page, you'll be able to 
figure out how to fix the problem (GlobalReplace is called from 
edittools.c).

        :)

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