Hi everybody, I was wondering, if it is possible to use backreferences in the pattern repetition bracket operator.
Consider the following string:
my $string = "5 abcdefghijklmn";
The number five at the beginning of the string means, that I want to
extract first five characters from the latter part of the string. I
tried the following code, but it doesn`t work:
$string =~ s/(\d+)\s+(.{\g1})//;
print "extracted: $1 $2\n";
The desired output would be:
extracted: 5 abcde
It seems, that it is not possible to use backreferences within the
bracket operator (or am I doing something wrong?).
Is there other solution to my problem.
Than you in advance for your time
Regards
Honza Mach
Cesnet
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