using regexp backreferences

From: CSN <cool_screen_name90001(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: using regexp backreferences
Date: 2004-06-08 21:32:08
Message-ID: 20040608213208.5851.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com
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Can you use backreferences in regular expressions like
so?

update table set title='foobar ' || \1 where title ~*
'[a-z]+([0-9]+)';



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