Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • Home
  • SEARCH
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 588659
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T15:20:30+00:00 2026-05-13T15:20:30+00:00

I found some interesting possibility in many regex engines: It’s possible to place backreference

  • 0

I found some interesting possibility in many regex engines:

It’s possible to place backreference inside the capture group and reference this group.

For example: (\1)

My question: for what regex patterns it may be used? I can’t imagine…

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-13T15:20:30+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    There is an explanation for use of nested references, which I think clearly demonstrates the marginal usefulness of this feature.

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

After reading some interesting posts here on SO, and many pages found on google,
I found some interesting post about memory usage and CPU usage here on Stack
I have found some interesting behavior and do not know why or how to
Some days ago I looked at boost sources and found interesting typedef . There
I found this interesting tutorial that explains the concept of view bean with some
I found some interesting bit twiddling in source\common\unicode\utf.h file of ICU library (International Components
In this thread I found some interesting moment, If class uses only as superclass
An interesting question I found, asked that an NxN matrix be rotated, in-place by
I found some interesting code when I was looking at things that people had
Opened a LinkedHashSet source code today and found some interesting thing: public class LinkedHashSet<E>

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.