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authornobu <nobu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2016-04-07 10:04:05 +0000
committernobu <nobu@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2016-04-07 10:04:05 +0000
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regexp.rdoc: terminators in comments [ci skip]
* doc/regexp.rdoc (comments): [DOC] terminators cannot appear in comments. [ruby-core:74838] [Bug #12256] git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@54510 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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@@ -580,6 +580,9 @@ Comments can be included in a non-<tt>x</tt> pattern with the
<tt>(?#</tt><i>comment</i><tt>)</tt> construct, where <i>comment</i> is
arbitrary text ignored by the regexp engine.
+Comments in regexp literals cannot include unescaped terminator
+characters.
+
== Encoding
Regular expressions are assumed to use the source encoding. This can be