From: Luca Heltai <luca.heltai@sissa.it>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:17:03 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Fixed minor comments.
X-Git-Tag: v9.0.0-rc1~96^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf864558493030a16b9b23f8941e3d247096825b;p=dealii.git

Fixed minor comments.
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diff --git a/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h b/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h
index 700c621e8f..842d65e91e 100644
--- a/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h
+++ b/include/deal.II/base/patterns.h
@@ -1297,7 +1297,9 @@ namespace Patterns
      *
      * @code
      * auto t = std::make_tuple(1.0, std::make_pair(1, "ciao"));
-     * to_value("2 % 3 : mondo", t);
+     * // replace the value of 't' by the parsed content of the string argument:
+     * Patterns::Tools::to_value("2 % 3 : mondo", t);
+     *
      * auto s = Patterns::Tools::to_string(t);
      * std::cout << s; // will print "2 % 3 : mondo""
      * @endcode
@@ -1307,6 +1309,10 @@ namespace Patterns
      * should use in your string patterns when converting from a string to a
      * container type.
      *
+     * Notice that the current content of variable @p t is ignored. Its type is
+     * used to infer how to interpret the string. If the string is succesfully
+     * parsed, then @p t will be set to the parsed content of @p s.
+     *
      * @author Luca Heltai, 2018
      */
     template<typename T>