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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-12-01 07:40:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-12-01 07:40:35 +0000 |
| commit | 4f020e780761f535030db95045c7f318bb9da759 (patch) | |
| tree | e152e15169108332644ad7522463fa1d5484ced7 /man7/regex.7 | |
| parent | ff75a911d7afa62a73ad238dedf0f3220d8186a4 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4f020e780761f535030db95045c7f318bb9da759.tar.gz | |
Separate text on back regerences from that describing basic regexps,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
Remove crufty text about word boundaries.
Diffstat (limited to 'man7/regex.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/regex.7 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man7/regex.7 b/man7/regex.7 index e1d34d5e9b..8acd7c725b 100644 --- a/man7/regex.7 +++ b/man7/regex.7 @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ RE or\*(dg the end of a parenthesized subexpression, and `*' is an ordinary character if it appears at the beginning of the RE or the beginning of a parenthesized subexpression (after a possible leading `^'). +.PP Finally, there is one new type of atom, a \fIback reference\fR: `\e' followed by a non-zero decimal digit \fId\fR matches the same sequence of characters @@ -262,8 +263,10 @@ Avoid using them. POSIX.2's specification of case-independent matching is vague. The ``one case implies all cases'' definition given above is current consensus among implementors as to the right interpretation. -.PP -The syntax for word boundaries is incredibly ugly. +.\" As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666 +.\" The following does not seem to apply in the glibc implementation +.\" .PP +.\" The syntax for word boundaries is incredibly ugly. .\" .SH AUTHOR .\" This page was taken from Henry Spencer's regex package. .SH "SEE ALSO" |