In yellowgrass, we would like to support references to other issues in WikiText. In order to do this, in issue descriptions and comments, we would like to substitute:

yellowgrass/33

by

yellowgrass/33

To do this, we apply the following expression:

/\b([A-Za-z]\w+/\d+)\b/.replaceAll(“\1”, originalText) as WikiText

Unfortunately, the pattern back references in replaceAll (\1) do not work. The pattern fails instead and nothing gets replaced.
Perhaps this is caused by a separated application of the pattern match and replacement.

Submitted by Sander Vermolen on 19 May 2010 at 14:10

+1

I really want YellowGrass/23 to work (notice how you can’t click on that link!)

Just use $1 ?

like:

/\b([A-Za-z]\w+\/\d+)\b/.replaceAll("[$1](/issue/$1)", originalText) as WikiText