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Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
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Expand Up @@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ You can omit either *m* or *n*; in that case, a reasonable value is assumed for
the missing value. Omitting *m* is interpreted as a lower limit of 0, while
omitting *n* results in an upper bound of infinity.

The simplest case ``{m}`` matches the preceding item exactly **m** times.
For example, ``a/{2}b`` will only match ``'a//b'``.

Readers of a reductionist bent may notice that the three other quantifiers can
all be expressed using this notation. ``{0,}`` is the same as ``*``, ``{1,}``
is equivalent to ``+``, and ``{0,1}`` is the same as ``?``. It's better to use
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