On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 02:49:59PM +0000, John O'Hagan wrote:
> in other words, treating backreferences as pseudo-variables, but it
> doesn't, AFAIK.
Use the right tool for the job. If you want to treat grouped matches as
variables, use perl because perl explicitly supports this:
$ echo foobarbaz | \
perl -ne '$_ =~ /(foo)(bar)(baz)/; print "$3, $2, $1\n"'
baz, bar, foo
If you don't want to use perl, you'll have to use multiple invocations
of grep's -o flag and build up your own capture variables. Good luck!
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