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-rw-r--r--tools/lib/python/kdoc/c_lex.py9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/c_lex.py b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/c_lex.py
index b6d58bd470a9..e01b154f458e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/python/kdoc/c_lex.py
+++ b/tools/lib/python/kdoc/c_lex.py
@@ -336,13 +336,14 @@ class CTokenArgs:
self.sub_tokeninzer = CTokenizer(sub_str)
def groups(self, new_tokenizer):
- """
+ r"""
Create replacement arguments for backrefs like:
- ``\0``, ``\1``, ``\2``, ...``\n``
+ ``\0``, ``\1``, ``\2``, ... ``\{number}``
- It also accepts a ``+`` character to the highest backref. When used,
- it means in practice to ignore delimins after it, being greedy.
+ It also accepts a ``+`` character to the highest backref, like
+ ``\4+``. When used, the backref will be greedy, picking all other
+ arguments afterwards.
The logic is smart enough to only go up to the maximum required
argument, even if there are more.