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sellew · 12-01-2011, 05:01 PM

Yes, I'm afraid I was too optimistic when wrote 'you can use as many groups as required'. Googling a bit I've read somewhere that the maximum number of back-references allowed by most regex engines is 9 (\1...\9).

12-01-2011, 05:01 PM	#7
sellew Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 300 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Barcelona Device: Sony PRS-650, PRS-T2	Yes, I'm afraid I was too optimistic when wrote 'you can use as many groups as required'. Googling a bit I've read somewhere that the maximum number of back-references allowed by most regex engines is 9 (\1...\9).