Kaydet (Commit) 9e670c21 authored tarafından Mark Summerfield's avatar Mark Summerfield

Added a note to [] that special forms & special chars lose their meaning

and backrefs can't be used inside []
üst 1d138f1c
......@@ -181,6 +181,12 @@ The special characters are:
``[^5]`` will match any character except ``'5'``, and ``[^^]`` will match any
character except ``'^'``.
Note that inside ``[]`` the special forms and special characters lose
their meanings and only the syntaxes described here are valid. For
example, ``+``, ``*``, ``(``, ``)``, and so on are treated as
literals inside ``[]``, and backreferences cannot be used inside
``[]``.
``'|'``
``A|B``, where A and B can be arbitrary REs, creates a regular expression that
will match either A or B. An arbitrary number of REs can be separated by the
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