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diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index d574c37..c4ebbd3 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ is the same as ``[a-c]``, which uses a range to express the same set of characters. If you wanted to match only lowercase letters, your RE would be ``[a-z]``. -Metacharacters are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will +Metacharacters (except ``\``) are not active inside classes. For example, ``[akm$]`` will match any of the characters ``'a'``, ``'k'``, ``'m'``, or ``'$'``; ``'$'`` is usually a metacharacter, but inside a character class it's stripped of its special nature. |