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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, |