Yes, but it uses the PCRE syntax <http://www.pcre.org>. You should  
use $1, $2 etc instead of \1, \2, etc. (has bitten me too in the past).

Christiaan

On 28 Jul 2007, at 1:33 PM, Alex Hamann wrote:

> I just tried to do a find&replace operation with regular expressions
>
> find:  ([^\,]+), (^\/)
> replace with: \2 \1
>
> which should basically look for certain entries in the shortauthor
> field and change the order of their first and second names.
> However, while the "find" part works fine  BibDesk will actually do
> the substitution with the numbers "2" and "1" and not interpret \2
> as the value of the content of the second parir of parentheses (and
> \1 accordingly).  Cant the replace-field understand reg exps or did I
> miss something?
>
> alex
>

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