Bug of replace?

General Usage
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replace("123\n", r"(\n)", s"\1") is OK, but replace("123\n", r"(\n)", s"\r\1") reports “Bad replacement string”. Is this a bug of function replace?

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It might be considered a bug in the string literal for SubstitutionString:

The following works, where the SubstitutionString is created directly:

(Note that below \1 is displayed as \l because discourse markdown renders as a backtick, and I don’t know how to escape it)

Julia-0.5.1> s = Base.SubstitutionString("\r\\l")
s"\r\\l"

Julia-0.5.1> replace("123\n", r"(\n)", s)
"123\r\n"

It appears that s"\r\1" creates a 4-character string "\\r\\l", rather than the 3-character string "\r\\l".

Perhaps file an issue?

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Thanks