From 51b13e53fcd0dfc0fbaa2be9cab7814e5f98233e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Peterson Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:42:46 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fix typo (closes #26378) --- Doc/howto/regex.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/howto/regex.rst b/Doc/howto/regex.rst index cc45e6e489..9fe2128616 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/regex.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/regex.rst @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ that limit. Repetitions such as ``*`` are :dfn:`greedy`; when repeating a RE, the matching engine will try to repeat it as many times as possible. If later portions of the pattern don't match, the matching engine will then back up and try again with -few repetitions. +fewer repetitions. A step-by-step example will make this more obvious. Let's consider the expression ``a[bcd]*b``. This matches the letter ``'a'``, zero or more letters -- 2.50.1