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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-23 21:14:59 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-07-23 21:14:59 (GMT)
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Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference. This closes SF bug #441600.
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@@ -96,10 +96,13 @@ specified, this matches any character including a newline.
\item[\character{\^}] (Caret.) Matches the start of the string, and in
\constant{MULTILINE} mode also matches immediately after each newline.
-\item[\character{\$}] Matches the end of the string, and in
-\constant{MULTILINE} mode also matches before a newline.
-\regexp{foo} matches both 'foo' and 'foobar', while the regular
-expression \regexp{foo\$} matches only 'foo'.
+\item[\character{\$}] Matches the end of the string or just before the
+newline at the end of the string, and in \constant{MULTILINE} mode
+also matches before a newline. \regexp{foo} matches both 'foo' and
+'foobar', while the regular expression \regexp{foo\$} matches only
+'foo'. More interestingly, searching for \regexp{foo\e d} in
+'foo1\textbackslash nfoo2\textbackslash n' matches 'foo2' normally,
+but 'foo1' in \constant{MULTILINE} mode.
\item[\character{*}] Causes the resulting RE to
match 0 or more repetitions of the preceding RE, as many repetitions