> hello all -
>
> An example. You have a regular expression to locate certain html tags.
>
> "(<)[^a-z]"
>
>
> This will find every instance of a "<" character that is not followed
> by a letter. The match will include the 2nd character ("<>") wheras
> group 1 will just include the "<" character.
>
> when you do a regex.replace it automatically replaces the matches but I
> want to just replace group1.
>
> so      regex.replace ("<>", "(<)[^a-z]", "x")      would match "<>"
> and retuen "x" when what i really want is to replace just the < and end
> up with "x>" Does that make sense?
>
> thanks for any help provided.