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Notepad++ regex Replace, using match variables

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Mar 15, 202633085 views

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In Notepad++, I want to perform a find-and-replace, providing a variable in the 'Replace with' field, which references a match from the 'Find what' field. Any ideas? I tried supplying (find) (replace) . That didn't work.

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foo (\w) bar

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Notepad++ uses standard POSIX regular expressions. As such, backreferences should use the slash instead of the dollar-sign:

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