Re^2: Matching Character Patterns With Backreferences

I'm having trouble getting this to work with the $1 form - it's simply not matching anything the moment I make that change.

The \s is simply because each line of the dictionary file contains a word followed by whitespace. Checking for the space stops me from printing out "TESTING" when I only want "TEST" :-)

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Re^3: Matching Character Patterns With Backreferences by BUU (Prior) on Dec 06, 2004 at 00:42 UTC
You should be using `\1` and friends in the left hand side of the `s///` operator.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Matching Character Patterns With Backreferences by gaal (Parson) on Dec 06, 2004 at 17:37 UTC
Are you sure? I believe it's the other way around; you should use `$1` and friends on the right hand side of the s/// operator. That's what the warning in perlre is about, anyway.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Matching Character Patterns With Backreferences by BUU (Prior) on Dec 07, 2004 at 04:13 UTC
What? Yes I'm sure. Of course you should use `$1` on the right hand side of the s/// operator, as thats merely a double quoted string. The warning in perlre is regards to using `\1` on the right hand side, which only works because of a hack.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: Matching Character Patterns With Backreferences by gaal (Parson) on Dec 07, 2004 at 15:10 UTC