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authorGustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>2004-09-03 17:06:10 (GMT)
committerGustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>2004-09-03 17:06:10 (GMT)
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Applying modified version of patch #1018386, which fixes
some escaping bugs in SRE.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
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@@ -387,7 +387,8 @@ also accepted by the regular expression parser:
Octal escapes are included in a limited form: If the first digit is a
0, or if there are three octal digits, it is considered an octal
-escape. Otherwise, it is a group reference.
+escape. Otherwise, it is a group reference. As for string literals,
+octal escapes are always at most three digits in length.
% Note the lack of a period in the section title; it causes problems