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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-08-20 13:57:47 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-08-20 13:57:47 (GMT) |
| commit | ffefb1df566c80881bdb353dcab51947d7c5ae5c (patch) | |
| tree | 290e27f998395139d087f0165b43823a904fe7ac /Doc | |
| parent | b404bb7813f3d05b7d338ff5c1c5dc6c59b946c6 (diff) | |
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Clarify the endpos argument to the rx.match() method.
Closes SF bug #597177.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libre.tex | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex index 4a5eda3..bff13fa 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex @@ -668,8 +668,12 @@ attributes: The optional parameter \var{endpos} limits how far the string will be searched; it will be as if the string is \var{endpos} characters - long, so only the characters from \var{pos} to \var{endpos} will be - searched for a match. + long, so only the characters from \var{pos} to \code{\var{endpos} - + 1} will be searched for a match. If \var{endpos} is less than + \var{pos}, no match will be found, otherwise, if \var{rx} is a + compiled regular expression object, + \code{\var{rx}.match(\var{string}, 0, 50)} is equivalent to + \code{\var{rx}.match(\var{string}[:50], 0)}. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[RegexObject]{split}{string\optional{, |