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-rw-r--r--doc/syntax/literals.rdoc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
index 4d8a9a210d..32f106360a 100644
--- a/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
+++ b/doc/syntax/literals.rdoc
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Double-quote strings allow escaped characters such as <tt>\n</tt> for
newline, <tt>\t</tt> for tab, etc. The full list of supported escape
sequences are as follows:
- \0 null, ASCII 00h (NUL)
+ \0 null, ASCII 00h (NUL), only if not followed by an octal digit ([0-7])
\a bell, ASCII 07h (BEL)
\b backspace, ASCII 08h (BS)
\t horizontal tab, ASCII 09h (TAB)