From 1380affcd259c8723b51cd48bdc862c0deee3934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Y. Yu" <54338793+PursuitOfDataScience@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:39:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update regexps.qmd (#1065)

Fixed a few errors. Could you also explain why there are two dots in "..\\1" rather than three dots or some other numbers of dots?
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 regexps.qmd | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/regexps.qmd b/regexps.qmd
index 5706d9a..742ccc5 100644
--- a/regexps.qmd
+++ b/regexps.qmd
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ All of these are these described below.
 ### Matching a repeated pattern
 
 You can refer back to previously matched text inside parentheses by using **back reference**.
-Back references are usually numbered: `\1` refers to the match contained in the first parentheses, `\2` in the the second parentheses, and so on.
+Back references are usually numbered: `\1` refers to the match contained in the first parenthesis, `\2` in the second parenthesis, and so on.
 For example, the following pattern finds all fruits that have a repeated pair of letters:
 
 ```{r}