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Joe Barwell <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:38:13 +1300
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, David Livesay <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Jul 28, 2007, at 6:12 AM, Joe Barwell wrote:
>
>> set s to change "([^(AAA)])\\t$" into "\\1" in s with regexp
>
>I'm not familiar with Satimage's implementation, but what are the
>inner () for? I've found that nested (()) break backreferences in
>most regex implementations.

Hi Dave,

Uhhh... it was an attempt to group things, but you're right, it
doesn't actually achieve what I wanted.

My thanks also to Emmanuel for his post on this thread.

Cheers!

Joe

Selected from Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary":
REASONABLE, adj. -- Accessible to the infection of our own opinions.
Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.

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