Document regex replacement strings behavior. #139
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All replacement methods use dolar signs to identify groups in the matched string, and backslashes to escape characters. Document this behavior, and provide a method that can be used to properly quote replacement strings when this behavior is not desired. Closes SI-4750.
| * interpreted as a reference to a group in the matched pattern, with numbers | ||
| * 1 through 9 corresponding to the first nine groups, and 0 standing for the | ||
| * whole match. Any other character is an error. The backslash (`\`) character | ||
| * will be interpreted as a escape character, and can be used to escape the |
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All replacement methods use dolar signs to identify groups in the
matched string, and backslashes to escape characters. Document this
behavior, and provide a method that can be used to properly quote
replacement strings when this behavior is not desired.
Closes SI-4750.