Regular expressions in Homesite

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The following was found for regular expressions in Homesite 4.5 - it may or may not be true for newer versions.

- back references in Homesite are expressed as \1, \2 etc. You can use them both in the search and in the replace term of a s// statement.

- it seems not possible to do a non-greedy match. Typically that is expressed as (.*?) but Homesite seems to ignore it.

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