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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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@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ RE or\*(dg the end of a parenthesized subexpression,
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and `*' is an ordinary character if it appears at the beginning of the
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RE or the beginning of a parenthesized subexpression
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(after a possible leading `^').
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.PP
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Finally, there is one new type of atom, a \fIback reference\fR:
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`\e' followed by a non-zero decimal digit \fId\fR
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matches the same sequence of characters
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POSIX.2's specification of case-independent matching is vague.
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The ``one case implies all cases'' definition given above
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is current consensus among implementors as to the right interpretation.
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.PP
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The syntax for word boundaries is incredibly ugly.
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.\" As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666
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.\" The following does not seem to apply in the glibc implementation
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.\" .PP
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.\" The syntax for word boundaries is incredibly ugly.
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.\" .SH AUTHOR
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.\" This page was taken from Henry Spencer's regex package.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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