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| author | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2011-03-12 03:42:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil@gmail.com> | 2011-03-12 03:42:33 (GMT) |
| commit | e858bca35648bfdd817c51bbea53cb968b626a8d (patch) | |
| tree | c85726bff91738a37f62592df485477ea92da1c4 /Doc/library/re.rst | |
| parent | dd8f2e7edf1e8221398310ff34e4fc5e862a5471 (diff) | |
| parent | abd4a0556142e971c22d23243bacd3f0ad6d2299 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/re.rst b/Doc/library/re.rst index 423540c..3e9cf02 100644 --- a/Doc/library/re.rst +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst @@ -295,11 +295,12 @@ The special characters are: match at the beginning of the string being searched. ``(?(id/name)yes-pattern|no-pattern)`` - Will try to match with ``yes-pattern`` if the group with given *id* or *name* - exists, and with ``no-pattern`` if it doesn't. ``no-pattern`` is optional and - can be omitted. For example, ``(<)?(\w+@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)(?(1)>)`` is a poor email - matching pattern, which will match with ``'<user@host.com>'`` as well as - ``'user@host.com'``, but not with ``'<user@host.com'``. + Will try to match with ``yes-pattern`` if the group with given *id* or + *name* exists, and with ``no-pattern`` if it doesn't. ``no-pattern`` is + optional and can be omitted. For example, + ``(<)?(\w+@\w+(?:\.\w+)+)(?(1)>|$)`` is a poor email matching pattern, which + will match with ``'<user@host.com>'`` as well as ``'user@host.com'``, but + not with ``'<user@host.com'`` nor ``'user@host.com>'`` . The special sequences consist of ``'\'`` and a character from the list below. |