Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-regexp-dev-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 74626 invoked by uid 500); 8 Mar 2001 23:28:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact regexp-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: regexp-dev@jakarta.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list regexp-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 74484 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2001 23:28:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO csoft.net) (216.226.17.73) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 23:28:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 23086 invoked by uid 1611); 8 Mar 2001 23:27:32 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:27:32 -0600 From: "Mike T. Miller" To: regexp-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: change to 'subst' Message-ID: <20010308172732.A21307@csoft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2i X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N I'd like to add "subgroup" awareness to 'subst' so that things like RE re = new RE("(xyz)"); System.out.println(re.subst("abcxyzabc", "-\\1-")); will produce "abc-xyz-abc". This wouldn't take me much to put in. Is there any objections? (Maybe the subgroup character should be '$' instead of '\'? I've seen it both ways.) Mike