X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fregexprops-generic.texi;h=19bfca68f3a86f60dc5626971d1d04d3d261f8ba;hb=f1c88d2ef7d0860d2374e325d0b26febc11479b7;hp=cad909b056aadd807968b564b1c83a4298f62a15;hpb=f2e592bfe3e001764b5031e38e102dd914c84b5f;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/regexprops-generic.texi b/doc/regexprops-generic.texi index cad909b05..19bfca68f 100644 --- a/doc/regexprops-generic.texi +++ b/doc/regexprops-generic.texi @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +@c Copyright (C) 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 +@c Free Software Foundation, Inc. +@c +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. + +@c this regular expression description is for: generic + @menu * awk regular expression syntax:: * egrep regular expression syntax:: @@ -182,7 +194,7 @@ The character @samp{$} only represents the end of a string when it appears: @item At the end of a regular expression -@item Before an close-group, signified by +@item Before a close-group, signified by @samp{\)} @item Before the alternation operator @samp{\|} @@ -273,7 +285,7 @@ The character @samp{$} only represents the end of a string when it appears: @item At the end of a regular expression -@item Before an close-group, signified by +@item Before a close-group, signified by @samp{\)} @item Before the alternation operator @samp{\|} @@ -431,7 +443,7 @@ The character @samp{$} only represents the end of a string when it appears: @item At the end of a regular expression -@item Before an close-group, signified by +@item Before a close-group, signified by @samp{\)} @item Before a newline @@ -489,7 +501,7 @@ The alternation operator is @samp{|}. The characters @samp{^} and @samp{$} always represent the beginning and end of a string respectively, except within square brackets. Within brackets, @samp{^} can be used to invert the membership of the character class being specified. -@samp{*}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are special at any point in a regular expression except the following places, where they are illegal: +@samp{*}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are special at any point in a regular expression except the following places, where they are not allowed: @enumerate @item At the beginning of a regular expression @@ -616,7 +628,7 @@ The alternation operator is @samp{|}. The characters @samp{^} and @samp{$} always represent the beginning and end of a string respectively, except within square brackets. Within brackets, @samp{^} can be used to invert the membership of the character class being specified. -@samp{*}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are special at any point in a regular expression except the following places, where they are illegal: +@samp{*}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are special at any point in a regular expression except the following places, where they are not allowed: @enumerate @item At the beginning of a regular expression @@ -686,7 +698,7 @@ The character @samp{$} only represents the end of a string when it appears: @item At the end of a regular expression -@item Before an close-group, signified by +@item Before a close-group, signified by @samp{\)} @end enumerate