On 06/11/2009 09:11 AM, Nick Gearls wrote: > Yes, that's what I meant. > > The kind of thing that (surprisingly) works is > s/(pattern)/---toremove---$1/q > s/---toremove---//q > > The second one should obviously use the n flag, but even with a regex it > works. I also tried with the second string longer or shorter, and it > always works (at least on my test page). > Can I really consider this as safe?
I guess this special case yes, but not in general. Regards Rüdiger
