Thank you sir! Don't know how I missed that in the manual and I promise I did look there first.
On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 4:13:30 PM UTC-4 Patrick Woolsey wrote: > On 3/16/22 at 2:06 PM, [email protected] (ThePorgie) wrote: > > >I was tinkering with with Patrick's question > > Not actually my question ;-) though close enough for the matters > at hand. > > > >So I was looking at this and knew it would have to be several > >passes, but my pattern I was working with for the first pass > >was "(?P<foo>\d+\.)1" > > > >My question is since I can't use a replace pattern \1 follow by 33 > > You can in fact do this by prefixing a zero "0" to the singular > backreference number, so: > > Replace: \0133 > > will give you the first backreference \01 followed by the string "33". > > > >I was using a named pattern, but (?P=foo) doesn't call the named pattern > >in the replace area of a grep search? Just curious as I couldn't find > >anything regarding this in the manual. > > Please see the section titled "Subpatterns Make Replacement > Powerful" in Chapter 8 (page 202) of the current manual: > > Pattern Inserts > ===================================================== > [...] > > \P<NAME> the text matched by the subpattern NAME > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/daa9a0b4-0151-4404-a775-ba345a104655n%40googlegroups.com.
