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Asked: 2026-05-27T12:43:24+00:00

When you address a regex capture, things can get tricky when digits follow the

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When you address a regex capture, things can get tricky when digits follow the capture. In PCRE, I can write

${1}000

to substitute the capture of Group 1 followed by three zeroes.

Does anyone know the equivalent syntax in Dreamweaver replace operations, if any?

If we had a series of “A”s instead of zeroes, we could use:

$1AAAA

But these:

$10000
${1}0000

do not work.

I believe the regex flavor is ECMAScript. Just cannot find the information.
This may not be addressed in the syntax. If so, that would be good to know.

Thank you!

Edit: I should add that this is not matter of life and death as I have a number of grep tools at my fingertips. I would just like to know.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Dreamweaver’s regular expression find and replace is supposed to be based on JavaScript’s implementation of RegExp. You should be able to just use $1000 in the replacement text. However, like you’ve found, the replacement groups ($ + group number) are not properly recognized when the replacement text has digits immediately after the grouping token.

    FWIW: I’ve logged a bug on this at http://adobe.ly/DWwish

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