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Re: Regex Replace() with modified subexpressions?

Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Date	2015-11-05 01:09 -0800
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Subject	Re: Regex Replace() with modified subexpressions?
From	Jim <google@zolx.com>

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On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 4:54:24 AM UTC-7, Steve wrote:
> 
> MS added this to VBS with version 5.5 but only documented it in one 
> place:
> 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974619.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
> 
> The page is mostly about JScript but there is a "What About VBScript?" 
> section at the end which documents what you want to do.

You're talking about the section about using a function pointer as the second argument to re.Replace(), correct?

That would clean up the code at the point where the re.Replace() is used, but seems to just move most of the complexities of using re.Execute() and sifting through matches and submatches collections into the referenced function.

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Regex Replace() with modified subexpressions? Jim <google@zolx.com> - 2015-11-03 19:45 -0800
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  Re: Regex Replace() with modified subexpressions? "Steve" <cerberus40+usenet@gmail.com> - 2015-11-04 06:52 -0500
    Re: Regex Replace() with modified subexpressions? Jim <google@zolx.com> - 2015-11-05 01:09 -0800

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