At 02:21 AM 2001-08-30, Timo Boettcher wrote: ><= a_dn_pat: .*cn=([^,]+),ou=people,o= $1 ,ou=customers,o=myorganisation >why is the "$1" not substituted? That message reports the regex pre-substitution. Note that the extra spaces (before and after the $1) will cause this clause not to match anything.