regex substitution

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At 09:42 PM 3/4/96 PST, slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:
>>Is there a verb which does substitution based on regex pattern
>>matching?  $string_utils:substitute doesn't, but it would be nice
>>if it did.  If not, then does someone have some pre-written code
>>which does this.  I'd rather not write it myself if it's already
>>been done.  :)
>
>doesn't the builtin function substitute() perform this function?

I believe what you'd want to do is this:

substitute("%NTH-PARENTHESIS",match(to-be-matched,regexp-expression))

I suggest looking at the help in the Programmer's Manual under 'match' and
'substitute'

- Kipp
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