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| author | Jonathan Gray <jsg@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-09-10 11:25:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Gray <jsg@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-09-10 11:25:33 +0000 |
| commit | de160e82ac6d95813437efd2bc392f2995bdfe9b (patch) | |
| tree | c9fc01f6978711bf576a91d7dae7bed21d53f932 /lib/libc/regex | |
| parent | 35ba4897fab30be541e37419e0630aa63bb2ba55 (diff) | |
document \<word\> as being non standard
from Pedro F. Giffuni in FreeBSD pr 153257
ok millert@ tedu@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/regex')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 b/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 index d509020576d..b8e276fcfcb 100644 --- a/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 +++ b/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: re_format.7,v 1.16 2013/06/05 22:05:29 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: re_format.7,v 1.17 2014/09/10 11:25:32 jsg Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, Phillip F Knaack. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)re_format.7 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/20/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 10 2014 $ .Dt RE_FORMAT 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -304,6 +304,12 @@ This is an extension, compatible with but not specified by POSIX, and should be used with caution in software intended to be portable to other systems. +The additional word delimiters +.Ql \e< +and +.Ql \e> +are provided to ease compatibility with traditional SVR4 +systems but are not portable and should be avoided. .Pp In the event that an RE could match more than one substring of a given string, |