On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 10:32, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> Sorry, I seem to have lost your original (excessive trimming of
> responses, probably) so I can't check this, but if you had a "match"
> condition in the replacement then, yes, $1 is going to get reset.
>
Yes; that's why I was wondering if there was any other variable I could
use.
>
> If you want to use the "outside" $1 in the replacement of the match,
> you'll have to use trickery, such as adding "+$1" to the subject text to be
> matched and an appropriate bit of regex to pick it off for use in the
> "sucess" string.
>
Yes, thanks for that. I thought last night though that perhaps using an
'eq ${substr' expression instead of match would work (not yet tested).
It would also preserve the $1 from the regex.
Many thanks,
John.
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