I've been trying to learn UltraEdit, but I can't get this one feature to
work.  I'm trying to tag the existing text on a line in a replace operation
so that I can duplicate it and put other stuff around the copies.

According to the documentation on regular expressions, stuff between ^( and
^) on the FIND WHAT line of the REPLACE dialog is supposed to get tagged so
that ^n on the REPLACE WITH line expands to the tagged text.  N is a number
from 1-9 indicating the specific tagged expression.  The first one is 1, the
second 2, etc.  The documentation also says that * will match any sequence
of characters except newline.  So I tried

FIND WHAT: ^(*^)
REPLACE WITH: if exist ^1 del ^1

then selected a bunch of lines that each contain a single string.  I
expected a line containing "xxx", for example to be converted to "if exist
xxx del xxx".  However it complains that the search expression couldn't be
found.  This doesn't make any sense since * is supposed to match anything.
Yes I have regular expressions enabled and Unix style disabled.  There is a
picture of the replace dialog at http://www.embedinc.com/temp/a.gif.

What am I missing?


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