Hi,

In a snippet with a mirror, how do you allow a mirror to be followed immediately by a number without that number being interpreted as a part of the mirror value?

i.e., make it that $11 is interpreted as <contents of group 1><digit 1>

$11 is interpreted as match 11 $1\1 (and \1 and \\1) all let the slashes flow right through rather than consuming them as escapes.

Any clues or is this a limitation in snippets?

Tim

____________________ Famous lauded but completely wrong judgements: When Oliver Wendell Holmes defined the class of speech which was not protected by the first amendment as being the class of speech which includes shouting "fire" in crowded theatre when there was none, he did so in a case where he was justifying the jailing of Yiddish protestors against the draft in WWI.

It is of course most critical to protect speech exactly when there is debate over whether there is a "fire" (incitement to imminent violence) or not, and that is what Holmes failed utterly to do.