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Author mrabarnett
Recipients ezio.melotti, hardkrash, mrabarnett
Date 2014-02-19.02:40:41
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Yes.

If it's not a valid repeat, then it's treated as a literal.

Perl does the same.

By the way, "\1" isn't a group reference; it's the same as "\x01". You should be either doubling the backslashes ("\\1") or using a raw string literal (r"\1").
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