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CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Following are the wonderful people (in no specific order) who have contributed t
 | Jongy | [Jongy](https://github.com/Jongy) | [#208](https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/208), [#210](https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/210), [#233](https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/233) |
 | Diptangsu Goswami | [diptangsu](https://github.com/diptangsu) | [#193](https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/193) |
 | Charles | [charles-l](https://github.com/charles-l)  | [#245](https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/245)
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+| Nuno André | [nuno-andre](https://github.com/nuno-andre) | [#247](https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython/issues/245) 
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 **Translations**

README.md

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ So, here we go...
     + [▶ All-true-ation *](#-all-true-ation-)
     + [▶ The surprising comma](#-the-surprising-comma)
     + [▶ Strings and the backslashes](#-strings-and-the-backslashes)
+    + [▶ Blurred boundaries](#-blurred-boundaries)
     + [▶ not knot!](#-not-knot)
     + [▶ Half triple-quoted strings](#-half-triple-quoted-strings)
     + [▶ What's wrong with booleans?](#-whats-wrong-with-booleans)
@@ -1351,6 +1352,42 @@ True
     ```
 - This means when a parser encounters a backslash in a raw string, it expects another character following it. And in our case (`print(r"\")`), the backslash escaped the trailing quote, leaving the parser without a terminating quote (hence the `SyntaxError`). That's why backslashes don't work at the end of a raw string.
 
+---
+### ▶ Blurred boundaries
+```py
+>>> re.match('wtf', 'wtfwtf')
+<re.Match object; span=(0, 3), match='wtf'>
+>>> re.match('wtf', 'wtf')
+<re.Match object; span=(0, 3), match='wtf'>
+```
+
+- `\B` matches the empty string, but only when it **_is not_** at the beginning or end of a word.
+```py
+>>> re.match('wtf\B', 'wtfwtf')
+<re.Match object; span=(0, 3), match='wtf'>
+>>> re.match('wtf\B', 'wtf')
+None
+```
+
+- `\b` matches the empty string, but only when it **_is_** at the beginning or end of a word.
+
+```py
+>>> re.match('wtf\b', 'wtfwtf')
+None
+>>> re.match('wtf\b', 'wtf')
+None
+```
+
+#### 💡 Explanation
+- `\b` and `\B` are anchor symbols of the regular expression syntax. But, unlike `\B`, `\b` is also a valid escape as a string literal (the backspace character). Thus in order for the `re` lexer to interpret the word boundary, it has to be escaped when is not used within raw literals.
+```py
+>>> re.match('wtf\\b', 'wtf')
+<re.Match object; span=(0, 3), match='wtf'>
+>>> re.match(r'wtf\b', 'wtf')
+<re.Match object; span=(0, 3), match='wtf'>
+```
+
+
 ---
 
 ### ▶ not knot!