MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER 8-EXTENDING DREAMWEAVER Manual page 360

The literal parentheses, as well as other special regular expression characters, are escaped by
preceding them with a backslash (\). The middle expression, defined as
the latest value that passed in for parameters
and can be precisely updated with new values.
"author_id"
Multiple occurrences of the same pattern can be updated simultaneously by using the regular
expression global flag
If the participant text is long and complex, you might need multiple patterns to update a
single parameter, as shown in the following example:
<% ...
Recordset1.CursorType = 0;
Recordset1.CursorLocation = 2;
Recordset1.LockType = 3;
%>
To update the recordset name in all three positions, you need three update patterns for a single
parameter, as shown in the following example:
<updatePattern paramName="rs">
/(\b)\w+(\.CursorType)/
</updatePattern>
<updatePattern paramName="rs">
/(\b)\w+(\.CursorLocation)/
</updatePattern>
<updatePattern paramName="rs">
/(\b)\w+(\.LockType)/
</updatePattern>
Now you can pass in a new value for the recordset, and it is precisely updated in three
locations.
<updatePattern> attributes
The following items are valid attributes of the updatePattern tag.
paramName
Description
This attribute indicates the name of the parameter whose value is used to update the
participant. This parameter should match the ones that are specified in the insertion text and
search parameters.
Parent
updatePattern
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after the closing slash (such as
"g"
and , respectively. The values
"rs" "col"
/pattern/g)
, is updated with
\w+
"RS1"
.