[erlang-questions] RegExp Behaviour

[Gordon Guthrie]

B
How embarrassing, I read the documentation for gsub, and read and re-read
the regexp character stuff elsewhere in the documentation, but didn't read
what was staring me in the face...

However, on reading it, the phrase:

"A & in the string New is replaced by the matched
substring of String."

leaves me completely bemused. 'on doing a substitution, don't'.

I suppose it could have some 'flow of control use'?

G

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Bernard Duggan <bernie@REDACTED> wrote:

> I'd say it's behaving just fine.  Check the documentation for
> regexp:sub().  "A & in the string New is replaced by the matched
> substring of String."
>
> Cheers,
>
> B
>
> Gordon Guthrie wrote:
> > Folks
> > This looks like a bug to me, but after many years regexp still gives me
> the
> > creeps :(
> >
> >> regexp:gsub("abcde", "c", "x").
> > {ok, "abxde", 1}
> >
> > One substitution, new string, tickety-boo!
> >
> >> regexp:gsub("ab:de", ":", "&").
> > {ok, "ab:de", 1}
> >
> > One substitution, but the old string, erk?
> >
> > Gordon
> >
> >
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