Back reference for regular expressions on "Search & Replace".

Can't I reference a result from my Regular Expression used on "Search Clause" into my "Replace Clause"?
What I'm doing is:
Using JDev 10.1.3 DP,
Search Menu -> Replace in Files...
Select "Regular Expressions"
Text: (A[0-9]*?_)(.)
Replace with: $2 (reference to the second Parenthesis in the "Text" Field).
For example, in Java, I would so something like this:
"Dummy String".replaceAll("(D.*? )(S)", "$2");
Are there any other ways that I can just Search something and Replace for nothing? I need a simple "Search and Delete", you know?
If I don't do that and try to leave it blank, a warning comes up saying that the "Replace with" field cannot be blank.
Any sugestions?

BOUNCE!
Please, anyone?
Will I really have to delete 1200 occurrences by hand???
:(

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