[PLUG] Emacs regex: quote dates

[Galen Seitz]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011, Galen Seitz wrote:
> 
>> What do your search and replace strings look like?  I'd expect
>> something like this.
>>
>> search:  ,\(date_match_pattern\),
>> replace: ,'\1',
> 
> Galen,
> 
>    For search I tried ,[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9], and I
> coped that with single quotes as the replacement string. Reading the wiki
> page I did not see \1 as replace original characters.

The terminology you're looking for is "back reference".
http://www.gnu.org/s/libtool/manual/emacs/Regexp-Replace.html

Oddly, in a quick search of the wiki, I didn't spot it either.  That's
assuming you were referring to emacswiki.org.

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Galen Seitz
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