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@@ -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.