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diff --git a/doc/regexprs.txt b/doc/regexprs.txt index 9ec08b810..f5544cc28 100644 --- a/doc/regexprs.txt +++ b/doc/regexprs.txt @@ -47,9 +47,11 @@ full documentation of Perl's regular expressions. Because the backslash ``\`` is a meta character both in the Nim programming language and in regular expressions, it is strongly recommended that one uses the *raw* strings of Nim, so that -backslashes are interpreted by the regular expression engine:: +backslashes are interpreted by the regular expression engine: +```nim r"\S" # matches any character that is not whitespace +``` A regular expression is a pattern that is matched against a subject string from left to right. Most characters stand for themselves in a pattern, and |