Back-refs in TPIPE's /replace's replacement string?

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Does anyone know if it's possible to specify SED-style back-refs in TPIPE's /replace's replacement string. Below, SED's replacement string "\1" refers to the first parenthesized regular expression found in the target string.

v:\> echo 1234 | sed  -e "s/.\(..\)./\1/g"
23

 

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TPIPE does have some notion of (Perl) backrefs.

v:\> echo foo=foo | tpipe /replace=4,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,"(foo)=\1","bar"
bar

How do I specify a backref in a replacement string?

 

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Does anyone know if it's possible to specify SED-style back-refs in TPIPE's /replace's replacement string. Below, SED's replacement string "\1" refers to the first parenthesized regular expression found in the target string.

v:\> echo 1234 | sed  -e "s/.\(..\)./\1/g"
23

Answer: Like this:

v:\> echo 1234 | tpipe /replace=4,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,".(..).","$1"
23

It might be a good idea for TPIPE's help to include a link to http://www.datamystic.com/textpipe/htmlhelp/general usage/regular_expressions.htm (and perhaps other documentation).