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Expand Up @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Atom -> Anchor
| '\'? <Character>
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Atoms are the smallest units of regex syntax. They include escape sequences, metacharacters, backreferences, etc. The most basic form of atom is a literal character. A metacharacter may be treated as literal by preceding it with a backslash. Other literal characters may also be preceded with a backslash, but it has no effect if they are unknown escape sequences, e.g `\I` is literal `I`.
Atoms are the smallest units of regex syntax. They include escape sequences, metacharacters, backreferences, etc. The most basic form of atom is a literal character. A metacharacter may be treated as literal by preceding it with a backslash. Other literal characters may also be preceded by a backslash, in which case it has no effect, e.g `\%` is literal `%`. However this does not apply to either non-whitespace Unicode characters, or to unknown ASCII letter character escapes, e.g `\I` is invalid.

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