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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.
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Michael Kerrisk 2007-12-01 07:40:35 +00:00
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@ -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"