Backreferences for Regular Expressions requested

[WordBaron]

I've done a few searches in the forum and I don't see any references to backreferences. As a big fan of regular expressions, I hoped that the regex replace in XYplorer would support backreferences. For instance if I do a search and replace on (\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})([AP]M) > \1-\2-\3 \4 I would expect it to replace 041435PM with 04-14-35 PM. Basic backreference support makes the regex renaming so much more powerful. If this is supported in the current version, I'm sorry for the request, I just don't see anything in the documentation about it.

WordBaron

[TheQwerty]

XY's regex engine uses a dollar sign notation for backreferences.
So instead of:

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(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})([AP]M) > \1-\2-\3 \4

You'd want:

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(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})([AP]M) > $1-$2-$3 $4