Docs improvement: what do the colons mean? ":"

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Open vladinator1000 opened 11 months ago

vladinator1000 commented 11 months ago

I was reading the vocabulary docs and saw this example

number -> [0-9]:+

What do the colons and plus mean?

DenverCoder1 commented 9 months ago

:+ is Kleene plus from Regular expressions meaning "appearing one or more times"

:* is Kleene star meaning "appearing zero or more times"

TekuConcept commented 3 months ago

:? - "appearing zero or one times"