Re: Replacing with backrefs does not work, can anybody explain why?

* Val Starovoitov meinte:

> new RE( "(..)ple").subst ( "Apple is tasty", "\\1ricot");
> Returns:             "\1ricot is tasty"
> My expectation:   "Apricot is tasty"

Try \1ricot. The problem is you escape the second backslash
instead of 1.
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