[thelist] Regex, dynamic replace and problem with numbers.

[Raymond Camden]

Yep. Found that out a bit later. :) Perl says, if I understand right,
\123 - Are the 123 backreferences? No, Try \12, are there 12? No, try 1.
It will do this for any backref > 9.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Plunkett, Matt
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:15 PM
> To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Regex, dynamic replace and problem
> with numbers.
>
>
> You may have hit on a CF specific problem.  I converted your
> code to Perl
> and it works fine:
>
> #!perl -w
>
> use strict;
>
> my $str = "23 Main St";
> my $container_str = "<input type=\"Text\" name=\"Address\"
> value=\"\" />";
>
> $container_str =~ s/([^>]* value="?)([^"\s]*)(["\s>][^>]*>)/$1$str$3/;
>
> print $container_str;
>