How to match a regex with backreference in Go?

Question

I need to match a regex that uses backreferences (e.g. \\1) in my Go code.

That\'s not so easy because in Go, the official regexp package uses the RE2 engine, one th

Answer 1

Answering my own question here, I solved this using golang-pkg-pcre, it uses libpcre++, perl regexes that do support backreferences. The API is not the same.