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diff --git a/man7/regex.7 b/man7/regex.7 index df874dfa3f..9bdfb6b270 100644 --- a/man7/regex.7 +++ b/man7/regex.7 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ POSIX.2 leaves some aspects of RE syntax and semantics open; `\*(dg' marks decisions on these aspects that may not be fully portable to other POSIX.2 implementations. .PP -A (modern) RE is one\*(dg or more non-empty\*(dg \fIbranches\fR, +A (modern) RE is one\*(dg or more nonempty\*(dg \fIbranches\fR, separated by `|'. It matches anything that matches one of the branches. .PP @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ 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 +`\e' followed by a nonzero decimal digit \fId\fR matches the same sequence of characters matched by the \fId\fRth parenthesized subexpression (numbering subexpressions by the positions of their opening parentheses, |