Re: [Regexp] Re: referring to subexpressions using metachars

[Wes Biggs]

Murali (Muralidharan) Narayanan wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a situation where I need to refer to the subexpressions that get substituted after a match was done. I used the substituteInto method of REMatch class to accomplish it. 
> However for subexpressions greater that 9 I am unable to refer to them. In other words, tokens are usable only from $0 through $9. $0 matches the full substring matched; $n matches subexpression number n.
>
> But when n > 9 I am unable to get the matched subexpression.

I think someone sent a patch for this to the list at some point, but 
I've been out of the loop and I don't remember if it was checked in to 
CVS.  You might check the latest CVS version from savannah.gnu.org and 
see if it has been changed to support $10, $11, etc.

Wes