Commit 929ee59f authored by Rob Pike's avatar Rob Pike

regexp/syntax: document the upper limit of n in x{n}

Fixes #7252.

LGTM=rsc
R=rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/77990044
parent c790b029
......@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Repetitions:
x{n,}? n or more x, prefer fewer
x{n}? exactly n x
Implementation restriction: The counting forms x{n} etc. (but not the other
forms x* etc.) have an upper limit of n=1000. Negative or higher explicit
counts yield the parse error ErrInvalidRepeatSize.
Grouping:
(re) numbered capturing group (submatch)
(?P<name>re) named & numbered capturing group (submatch)
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