From: gabriel.birke@...
Date: 2006-09-16T18:36:03+09:00
Subject: Re: No regex backreference with four backslashes


gabriel.birke@gmail.com wrote:

> But apparently the replacement string is
> interpreted as "one backslash and a backreference (escaped with two
> backslashes)."

After thinking a while about it I realized this is not correct.

Backslashes in a replacement string *must* be double backslashes (four
backslashes in the literal string) because otherwise they would be
interpreted as escaped characters by the regex engine. Right?