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authorYves Orton <demerphq@gmail.com>2006-11-15 13:29:39 +0100
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2006-11-15 12:41:24 +0000
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Re: [PATCH] Fix RT#19049 and add relative backreferences
Message-ID: <9b18b3110611150329l206e4552w887ae5f0a3f7ca80@mail.gmail.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@29279
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@@ -113,7 +113,13 @@ quantifiers. (Yves Orton)
The regex engine now supports a number of special purpose backtrack
control verbs: (*THEN), (*PRUNE), (*MARK), (*SKIP), (*COMMIT), (*FAIL)
-and (*ACCEPT). See L<perlre> for their descriptions.
+and (*ACCEPT). See L<perlre> for their descriptions. (Yves Orton)
+
+=item Relative backreferences
+
+A new syntax C<\R1> ("1" being any positive decimal integer) allows
+relative backreferencing. This should make it easier to embed patterns
+that contain backreferences. (Yves Orton)
=back