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Document expand() method of MatchObjects

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2000-10-05 12:35:29 +00:00
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@ -597,6 +597,15 @@ The pattern string from which the regex object was compiled.
\class{MatchObject} instances support the following methods and attributes:
\begin{methoddesc}[MatchObject]{expand}{template}
Return the string obtained by doing backslash substitution on the
template string \var{template}, as done by the \method{sub()} method.
Escapes such as \samp{\e n} are converted to the appropriate
characters, and numeric backreferences (\samp{\e 1}, \samp{\e 2}) and named
backreferences (\samp{\e g<1>}, \samp{\e g<name>}) are replaced by the contents of the
corresponding group.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[MatchObject]{group}{\optional{group1, \moreargs}}
Returns one or more subgroups of the match. If there is a single
argument, the result is a single string; if there are