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Michael Kerrisk c13182efa3 Wrapped long lines, wrapped at sentence boundaries; stripped trailing
white space.
2007-04-12 22:42:49 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fa203d8506 Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2". 2006-09-04 09:07:15 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 4dec66f990 Updated CONFORMING TO section 2006-08-03 13:58:08 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk 8c383102d0 hyphen/dash fixes 2005-07-07 08:27:03 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk bf6c69c999 Vincent Fourmond / Joey (Martin) Schulze
Removed discussion of `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' since they do
not seem to be in the glibc implementation.
As per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666


>   The regex.7.gz mentions that [[:>:]] and [[:<:]] are available to designate word boundaries.
> However, neither grep nor sed, which are build on the standard libc regcomp do recognise this syntax.
> Moreover, the small program here
>
> #include <regex.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <iostream>
>
> using namespace std;
>
> int main()
> {
>   regex_t RE;
>   int err_code = regcomp(&RE, "[[:<:]]",
>              REG_EXTENDED);
>   char Buffer[100];
>   if(err_code) {
>     regerror(err_code, &RE, Buffer, 100);
>     cerr << "Error : " << Buffer << endl;
>   }
> }
>
>
> produces the following error message:
>
> Error : Invalid character class name
2005-05-11 16:06:19 +00:00
Michael Kerrisk fea681dafb Import of man-pages 1.70 2004-11-03 13:51:07 +00:00