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diff --git a/doc/re.rdoc b/doc/re.rdoc index b912ca1d32..1c68533a8d 100644 --- a/doc/re.rdoc +++ b/doc/re.rdoc @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ quantified as one <i>atomic</i> whole. The <tt>(?:</tt>...<tt>)</tt> construct provides grouping without capturing. That is, it combines the terms it contains into an atomic whole without creating a backreference. This benefits performance at the slight -expense of readabilty. +expense of readability. # The group of parentheses captures 'n' and the second 'ti'. The # second group is referred to later with the backreference \2 @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ it matches becomes fixed for the remainder of the match, unless the entire subexpression must be abandoned and subsequently revisited. In this way <i>pat</i> is treated as a non-divisible whole. Atomic grouping is typically used to optimise patterns so as to prevent the regular -expression engine from backtracking needlesly. +expression engine from backtracking needlessly. # The <tt>"</tt> in the pattern below matches the first character of # the string, then <tt>.*</tt> matches <i>Quote"</i>. This causes the @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ Example: $+ #=> "c" # same as m[-1] -These global variables are thread-local and method-local varaibles. +These global variables are thread-local and method-local variables. == Performance |