From 3dd56202e1a167879aede87a0e65ae08ffebb792 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 06:29:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] use wfRegexReplacement() which was added a little while ago
 to cover this silly regex case

---
 includes/Linker.php | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/includes/Linker.php b/includes/Linker.php
index 9ac52a2ab6..ab962091a2 100644
--- a/includes/Linker.php
+++ b/includes/Linker.php
@@ -732,9 +732,7 @@ class Linker {
 					$match[1] = substr($match[1], 1);
 				$thelink = $this->makeLink( $match[1], $text, "", $trail );
 			}
-			# Quote backreferences, then run preg_replace
-			$thelink = strtr( $thelink, array( "\\" => "\\\\", '$' => "\\$" ) );
-			$comment = preg_replace( $linkRegexp, $thelink, $comment, 1 );
+			$comment = preg_replace( $linkRegexp, wfRegexReplacement( $thelink ), $comment, 1 );
 		}
 		wfProfileOut( $fname );
 		return $comment;
-- 
2.20.1