Added note on PCRE backreferences

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 In PCRE, following a backreference by _any_ number seems to turn it into an octal value. Why is this?
 Eg.
 `(a)\1` <-- Backreference
 `(a)\17` <-- Octal '17'
 `(a)\19` <-- Octal 1, then literal 9
 `(a)\1a` <-- Backreference, then 'a'