From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2002-04-09T01:37:55+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary (Shared subpattern)

> Of course you're 100% correct; I realize my mis-thinking here now.
> 
> (ab*)X(?*1)  will match:
> 
> aXba, aXa, abXabbbb, etc.

I meant "abXa" for that first example, of course.

I would agree that being able to backreference a previously used
pattern is a very nice feature.



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