Substitution Highlights

[gskinner]

Substitution Highlights

[gskinner]

These kind of solutions always sound great, until you run into edge cases, like the user put a square bracket in front of their replacement token [$1. It's kind of similar to what we do for List, but that still has the odd problem. I might look at this over the next week or so though, now that I'm dedicating some time again to RegExr.

[gskinner]

We don't really have access to the necessary data to do this. It's a great idea though, so I'll give it some thought, and leave this open for now.

[gunwald]

Would be a great feature. I don't get, why this would be a problem, what do you mean, you don't have access to the data? If you do a replace by a regular expression you can modify the replacement patterns as you wish, can't you? So, couldn't you just put some unique markers around the replacement patterns before replacing them, to find them again after replacing. I mean something like:

test.replace(/(.*)/g, "[[[[[[[$1]]]]]]]");

But probable I am missing something. Anyway, +1 for that feature.