[texworks] Back references

[Jonathan Kew]

On 12/7/15 03:23, Rajan Ananthan wrote:
> Are back-references supported in the Find and Replace regex expressions?
>
> I want to find a one or two digit number:
>
> Activity [\d]{1,2}
>
> And replace with the same match but with new line appended
>
> Activity \1 \\\\
>
> This replaces all occurrences with the \1 literal and not its value.
> What is the proper syntax?

Replace:

   Activity (\d{1,2})

with:

   Activity \1 \\\\

should work.

The important point being the "capturing" parentheses around the part of 
the match that you want to reference.