Kate regex question

[Graham Lawrence]

I have dates in mm/dd/yy format that I wish to convert to yy-mm-dd format.

Using kate, I find them with (\d\d)/(\d\d)/(\d\d)
but when I try to replace via $3-$1-$2
kate simply treats it as a text literal
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