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Jim Meyering |
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Changes to grep/manual/html_node/Regular-Expressions.html,v |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:26:01 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/grep
Module name: grep
Changes by: Jim Meyering <meyering> 16/04/22 05:25:56
Index: html_node/Regular-Expressions.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/grep/grep/manual/html_node/Regular-Expressions.html,v
retrieving revision 1.23
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -b -r1.23 -r1.24
--- html_node/Regular-Expressions.html 11 Mar 2016 06:09:09 -0000 1.23
+++ html_node/Regular-Expressions.html 22 Apr 2016 05:25:56 -0000 1.24
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
"GNU Free Documentation License". -->
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<head>
-<title>GNU Grep 2.24: Regular Expressions</title>
+<title>GNU Grep 2.25: Regular Expressions</title>
-<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.24: Regular Expressions">
-<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 2.24: Regular Expressions">
+<meta name="description" content="GNU Grep 2.25: Regular Expressions">
+<meta name="keywords" content="GNU Grep 2.25: Regular Expressions">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo">
@@ -76,16 +76,16 @@
by using various operators to combine smaller expressions.
<code>grep</code> understands
three different versions of regular expression syntax:
-“basic,” (BRE) “extended” (ERE) and “perl”.
+“basic” (BRE), “extended” (ERE) and “perl”
(PCRE).
In GNU <code>grep</code>,
there is no difference in available functionality between the basic and
extended syntaxes.
In other implementations, basic regular expressions are less powerful.
The following description applies to extended regular expressions;
differences for basic regular expressions are summarized afterwards.
-Perl regular expressions give additional functionality, and are
-documented in the <i>pcresyntax</i>(3) and <i>pcrepattern</i>(3) manual pages,
-but work only if PCRE is available in the system.
+Perl-compatible regular expressions give additional functionality, and
+are documented in the <i>pcresyntax</i>(3) and <i>pcrepattern</i>(3) manual
+pages, but work only if PCRE is available in the system.
</p>
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