Re: \1, \2, \3, ... inside of a character class

As you said, you want \1 working as the first captured occurrence in a character class ([...]). But \1 can capture much more than a single character, so, it can't be used inside a character class because it doesn't represent a character, but a string. To match multiple strings just use (?:...|\1|...).

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Re^2: \1, \2, \3, ... inside of a character class by ccn (Vicar) on Aug 12, 2004 at 21:26 UTC
\1 can capture much more than a single character, so, it can't be used inside a character class because it doesn't represent a character, but a string It's not a problem, see perlretut `/[\]c]def/; # matches ']def' or 'cdef' $x = 'bcr'; /[$x]at/; # matches 'bat', 'cat', or 'rat' /[\$x]at/; # matches '$at' or 'xat' /[\\$x]at/; # matches '\at', 'bat, 'cat', or 'rat'` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: \1, \2, \3, ... inside of a character class by gmpassos (Priest) on Aug 13, 2004 at 01:18 UTC
Ok, what you want is \1 working as a group of chars. Well, we can't, but you can use some complexer code: `$var = "abXaaabbbc" ; $var =~ s/(..)X(??{"[$1]+"})/${1}#/ ; print "$var\n" ;` [download] Output: `ab#c` [download] Graciliano M. P. "Creativity is the expression of the liberty".	[reply] [d/l] [select]