From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 21:14:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~978
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c547b46c067656b39c564a84a2979ec985e7b869;p=python

Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.

This closes SF bug #441600.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
index 4cadac17e8..cec5be2e16 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
@@ -96,10 +96,13 @@ specified, this matches any character including a newline.
 \item[\character{\^}] (Caret.)  Matches the start of the string, and in
 \constant{MULTILINE} mode also matches immediately after each newline.
 
-\item[\character{\$}] Matches the end of the string, and in
-\constant{MULTILINE} mode also matches before a newline.
-\regexp{foo} matches both 'foo' and 'foobar', while the regular
-expression \regexp{foo\$} matches only 'foo'.
+\item[\character{\$}] Matches the end of the string or just before the
+newline at the end of the string, and in \constant{MULTILINE} mode
+also matches before a newline.  \regexp{foo} matches both 'foo' and
+'foobar', while the regular expression \regexp{foo\$} matches only
+'foo'.  More interestingly, searching for \regexp{foo\e d} in
+'foo1\textbackslash nfoo2\textbackslash n' matches 'foo2' normally,
+but 'foo1' in \constant{MULTILINE} mode.
 
 \item[\character{*}] Causes the resulting RE to
 match 0 or more repetitions of the preceding RE, as many repetitions