CF evaluates the replace string *before* sending it to the regular
expression engine. Therefore, it's trying to find the struct key named
'\1' which is not legal. There are several ways to get around this, but
they all basically boil down to doing it in two steps.
--BenD
Johnny Le wrote:
> I tried to do this:
>
> <cfset thestring = "user.list&id={id}&username={username}"/>
> <cfset reReplace(thestring,'\w*{(\w+)}','#qryUser[\1]#','all')/>
>
> but I got an error. Is it possible to use \1 as a variable? I even tried
> '#evaluate("qryUser[\1]")# but it doesn't work.
>
>
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