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Author	veky
Recipients	ezio.melotti, malin, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, veaba, veky
Date	2019-10-25.09:32:53
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<1571995973.8.0.26044405819.issue38582@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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The documentation clearly says: > This special sequence can only be used to match one of the first 99 groups. If the first digit of number is 0, or number is 3 octal digits long, it will not be interpreted as a group match, but as the character with octal value number. Maybe it should also mention Serhiy's technique at that place, something like "If you need more than 99 groups, you can name them using..."

The documentation clearly says:

> This special sequence can only be used to match one of the first 99 groups. If the first digit of number is 0, or number is 3 octal digits long, it will not be interpreted as a group match, but as the character with octal value number.

Maybe it should also mention Serhiy's technique at that place, something like

"If you need more than 99 groups, you can name them using..."

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