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authorOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-05-07 14:49:54 +0000
committerOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2004-05-07 14:49:54 +0000
commite8a1d5db468a4c9891094f658236c006e9af206c (patch)
treed104dd4dee983de3c6c480286af43964c2daf4e1 /lib/libc/regex
parent1bdc27e88cf64d3ec9479236e08d320d7f39f389 (diff)
Describe more accurate what word boundaries are.
ok millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/regex')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/regex/re_format.74
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 b/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7
index 9679dea3cbb..d84ea6e7615 100644
--- a/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7
+++ b/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: re_format.7,v 1.10 2003/06/02 20:18:36 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: re_format.7,v 1.11 2004/05/07 14:49:53 otto Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997, Phillip F Knaack. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ There are two special cases\(dg of bracket expressions:
the bracket expressions `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' match the null string at
the beginning and end of a word respectively.
A word is defined as a sequence of
-word characters
+characters starting and ending with a word character
which is neither preceded nor followed by
word characters.
A word character is an