Package: sed
Version: 4.1.4-1
Severity: normal

  Hello !

  I did try some backreferences in a sed s/.../.../ program, and it gives me 
this funny 
result:

gaia ~ $ sed "s/([0-9])\./\3,/"
sed: -e expression #1, char 16: invalid reference \4 on `s' command's RHS
gaia ~ $ sed "s/([0-9])\./\1,/"
sed: -e expression #1, char 16: invalid reference \2 on `s' command's RHS

  It does really look like sed does add 1 to all the \digit stuff... I don't 
know if it 
comes from a realy blunder of me or if this is a real bug. In any case, this 
behavior is 
quite unexpected.

  Thanks !

        Vincent Fourmond


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