Can I substitute multiple items in a single regular expression in VIM or Perl?

Question

Let\'s say I have string \"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog\" can I change this to \"The slow brown fox jumps over the energetic dog\" with one regular expression

Answer 1

In perl:

s/quick(.*)lazy/slow${1}energetic/;

In vim:

s/quick\(.*\)lazy/slow\1energetic/;