Re^2: Can I use backreferences as quantifiers in a regex?

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This works beautifully.

I tried this without the ^N for a while, but couldn't get the backreferences to work. Thanks for the new knowledge about the 'postponed eval' and the ^N.

I had seen the postponed eval previously, but had stayed away from trying it due to the comments about 'highly experimental'.

Thanks for everyone's help!

johnbo

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Re^3: Can I use backreferences as quantifiers in a regex? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 30, 2009 at 06:12 UTC
$1 could be used for the first $^N, and $2 the second, but $^N is more meaningful. They're not that experimental, and they're require to do what you want to do in a match op.	[reply]

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