Regex named-group and backreference syntax

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/9/2 Mark Reinhold <mr at sun.com>:
>> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:58:46 -0700
>> From: uncle.alice at gmail.com
>
>...
> I'd say ${name} is the best option here given that it will be familiar,
> at least, to Perl and .NET developers.
>

It's also used for substitution in shell and Makefiles :)

> - Mark
>



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