backreference — अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोश

संज्ञा

1. An item in a regular expression equivalent to the text matched by an earlier pattern in the expression.

   उदाहरण

   The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression[…]

   Path traversal occurs when directory backreferences are used in a path to gain access to the parent folder of a subfolder.

क्रिया

1. To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).

   प्रयोग

   • सकर्मक

   उदाहरण

   By wrapping it in parentheses, the attributes can be reused by backreferencing this part of the pattern[…]

   अधिक उदाहरण (1)

   It doesn't change what the part matches, so /\d+/ and /(\d+)/ will still match as many digits as possible, but in the latter case they will be remembered in a special variable to be backreferenced later.