Christian Brabandt wrote:
> when working with csv-files, I have often wished for more than 10
> capturing groups. So here is a patch, that allows 99 capturing groups in
> the replacement part. This uses the perl-like syntax ${1} until ${99}
> for the capturing groups in the replacement part. If there does not
> exist a capturing group, this will resolve to the empty string.
>
> I have tested it locally and it works for me[1]. This obviously needs to
> be very well tested, before included.
>
> [1] running make test as well as trying several different :s commands.
Besides what I said about the string to be used:
- You don't need four bytes to store the group nr, use one byte.
- We need proper tests. I'm not accepting any changes to the regexp
changes without tests. The code is too complicated for just a few
manual checks.
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