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Backreferences vs Backreferenced - What's the difference?

backreferences | backreferenced |

As a noun backreferences

is plural of backreference.

As a verb backreferenced is

past tense of backreference.

backreferences

English

Noun

(head)
  • backreferenced

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (backreference)

  • backreference

    English

    Alternative forms

    * back-reference

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) An item in a regular expression equivalent to the text matched by an earlier pattern in the expression.
  • * 2003 , Rob Brooks-Bilson, Programming ColdFusion MX
  • The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression
  • * 2005 , Ivan Ristic, Apache security
  • Path traversal occurs when directory backreferences are used in a path to gain access to the parent folder of a subfolder.

    Verb

    (backreferenc)
  • (computing) To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).
  • * 2009 , Larry Ullman, Ruby: Visual QuickStart Guide (page 237)
  • By wrapping it in parentheses, the attributes can be reused by backreferencing this part of the pattern
  • * 2012 , Tom Christiansen, brian d foy(SIC), Larry Wall, Programming Perl (page 46)
  • 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.