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$regml returns the Nth backreference from a regex match.

If you use the /g modifier with an expression containing two backreferences and there are three matches, $regml(0) will return 6, it's a list of all backref accross all matches.

Synopsis

$regml([name], N)

Parameters

• name - The optional name given to the regex match
• N - The Nth backreference, if N is 0, returns the total number of backreference/capturing group

Properties

• .pos - returns the starting position of the backrefence

Example

Compatibility

Added: mIRC v5.9
Added on: 26 Apr 2001
Note: Unless otherwise stated, this was the date of original functionality.
Further enhancements may have been made in later versions.

See Also

• $regex
• $regsubex
• $regmlex