From 8fb94fa4aee1f2e05080fc2cbb7fe346d32e3740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Watters <watters.ryan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:01:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add note on Golang regexp library to findRE and replaceRE
 funcs

---
 content/functions/findRe.md    | 4 ++++
 content/functions/replacere.md | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/content/functions/findRe.md b/content/functions/findRe.md
index 5d58d5ad0..3eca2dcf7 100644
--- a/content/functions/findRe.md
+++ b/content/functions/findRe.md
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ You can limit the number of matches in the list with a third parameter. The foll
     <!-- returns ["<h2 id="#foo">Foo</h2>"] -->
 ```
 
+{{% note %}}
+Hugo uses Golang's [Regular Expression package](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/), which is the same general syntax used by Perl, Python, and other languages but with a few minor differences for those coming from a background in PCRE. For a full syntax listing, see the [GitHub wiki for re2](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax).
+{{% /note %}}
+
 <!-- Removed per request of @bep: https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/3188 -->
 <!-- ## `findRE` Example: Building a Table of Contents
 
diff --git a/content/functions/replacere.md b/content/functions/replacere.md
index e5acafac1..0ea52da05 100644
--- a/content/functions/replacere.md
+++ b/content/functions/replacere.md
@@ -23,3 +23,7 @@ Replaces all occurrences of a regular expression with the replacement pattern.
 {{ replaceRE "^https?://([^/]+).*" "$1" "http://gohugo.io/docs" }}` → "gohugo.io"
 {{ "http://gohugo.io/docs" | replaceRE "^https?://([^/]+).*" "$1" }}` → "gohugo.io"
 ```
+
+{{% note %}}
+Hugo uses Golang's [Regular Expression package](https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/), which is the same general syntax used by Perl, Python, and other languages but with a few minor differences for those coming from a background in PCRE. For a full syntax listing, see the [GitHub wiki for re2](https://github.com/google/re2/wiki/Syntax).
+{{% /note %}}