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Subject: Re: rx vs sregex - a "match" to the death
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Martin Stone Davis <m0davis@pacbell.net> writes:

[backrefs in regexps]

> I think you're using backreference wrongly.  Try the one I gave.

<forehead-slap/>

Silly me.

> It matches "Go, Spot, Go" OR "Run, Spot, Run". If I run
>
> (re-search-forward (sregexq (group (or "Go" "Run"))
>                              ", Spot, "
>                              (backref 1))
>
> It finds either of those two phrases.
[...]

Thanks. That's nifty.

    Oliver
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