Question

I’m trying my hand at regex again. In particular, using a backreference to found text in the replace string in the EditPad text editor.

Subject:

Product1 Desc,12 PIN,GradeA Qty Price
Product2 Desc,28 PIN,GradeA Qty Price

Goal:
Since the text is currently space-separated, I need to replace 12 PIN with 12||PIN, and 28 PIN with 28||PIN.

What I’m trying:
[(0-9)]+[(\s)]PIN seems to be finding what I want just fine.
When I try to replace with backrefereces, though, the only one I can get to work is \0.
For example, using \0||PIN as my replace gives me 12 PIN||PIN.
When I try to replace with \1||PIN, however, it gives ||PIN.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

I could have sworn that I saw a previous poster answer this…

Using this as your find string:

([0-9]+)[\s]*PIN

and this as your replace string:

\1||PIN

should do it.