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diff --git a/doc/overview.rst b/doc/overview.rst index fcfe195..8e47ed0 100644 --- a/doc/overview.rst +++ b/doc/overview.rst @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ to perform a regular expression match on a stream. Regular expressions need to look ahead. With a stream it is hard to look ahead because the process generating the stream may not be finished. There is no way to know if the process has paused momentarily or is finished and waiting for you. Pexpect must -implicitly always do a NON greedy match (minimal) at the end of a input. +implicitly always do a NON greedy match (minimal) at the end of input. Pexpect compiles all regular expressions with the :data:`re.DOTALL` flag. With the :data:`~re.DOTALL` flag, a ``"."`` will match a newline. |