Hi, probably it is a question to developers: Backrefs work fine in the search string, but do not work in replace string.
Example1 (in replace - does not work): new RE( "(..)ple").subst ( "Apple is tasty", "\\1ricot"); Returns: "\1ricot is tasty" My expectation: "Apricot is tasty" Example2 (in search - does work): new RE( "(.)=\\1").subst ( "0=0 is correct", "1=1"); Returns: "1=1 is correct" Regards, Val Starovoitov.