regex.3: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2019-09-13 12:47:32 +02:00
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commit ce0fd56bd7
1 changed files with 12 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -160,12 +160,19 @@ above).
.SS BSD regex matching
.TP
.B REG_STARTEND
Use pmatch[0] on the input string, starting at byte pmatch[0].rm_so and ending
before byte pmatch[0].rm_eo.
Use
.I pmatch[0]
on the input string, starting at byte
.I pmatch[0].rm_so
and ending before byte
.IR pmatch[0].rm_eo .
This allows matching embedded NUL bytes
and avoids a strlen() on large strings.
It does not use nmatch on input,
and does not change
and avoids a
.BR strlen (3)
on large strings.
It does not use
.I nmatch
on input, and does not change
.B REG_NOTBOL
or
.B REG_NEWLINE