Re: Regex replace with group capture and substitution not working

PSPad 4.5.8 (2482) on Windows 7.

I want to replace about 50 footnotes with a different format.

Old format: 1 <#cn1>. blah blah blah

New format: [^1]: blah blah blah

So I selected 2 lines to test the replace on. I did a replace with regex and tried to capture the footnote number. It didn't work. In the replace box, the '\1' is supposed to represent the digits captured in the search box. The screen capture below changes all footnotes to the number one.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2015-11-18 13:20 by therium.

For substitution use $1, not a \1
See the PSPad help (press F1 in find/replace fialog) for the regular expression examples

Super! Thank you.