[HTTPS-Everywhere] Transformations for regex capturing parentheses desirable?

[Seth David Schoen]

J.B. Nicholson-Owens writes:

> [...] specify that $1 should be altered in a specific way:
> lowercase it.
> 
> Is this desirable in more places than my particular ruleset?
> 
> Is there a desirable way to do something like this (I'm thinking
> another attribute on the rule element indicating which variable to
> transform and how to transform it)?
> 
> Thanks for your feedback.

I haven't encountered any other sites with this particular requirement.
So far, regular expression substitutions with backreferences (and
exclusion patterns) have been enough for all the transformations
people have needed to do.

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