DJ Lucas wrote these words on 02/28/06 21:38 CST:
> Is something staring me strait in the face that I'm not seeing? I
> thought the expected output is the value of ${COUNTER}. I think I see
> where you were going, but the example is incorrect...unless, like I
> said, I'm just overlooking something really obvious.
I believe perhaps you're trying to read too much into the text.
The expected output should be the extrapolated ${COUNTER}, which
in the provided example should be "string". It is the result of
what is returned with the first backreference of the sed.
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