relaxed placeholders are good for file extensions

mojolicious · Feb 24, 2015 · 3879c2f · 3879c2f · marcusramberg · Feb 24, 2015
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@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ C<([^/]+)>.
   /sebastian23/hello  -> /#name/hello -> {name => 'sebastian23'}
   /sebastian 23/hello -> /#name/hello -> {name => 'sebastian 23'}
 
+Relaxed placeholders are especially useful for manually matching file names
+with extensions rather than using L<"Format detection"|/"Formats">.
+
+  /music/song.mp3 -> /music/#filename -> {filename => 'song.mp3'}
+
 =head2 Wildcard placeholders
 
 Wildcard placeholders are just like the two placeholders above, but use an