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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-07-23 21:14:59 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2001-07-23 21:14:59 (GMT) |
commit | c547b46c067656b39c564a84a2979ec985e7b869 (patch) | |
tree | d1138decd1bb143865a9aa53d25fd2e07abfa341 /Doc | |
parent | 5e9eb98ff6217faf00ff4eac44397dc650dd0753 (diff) | |
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Be more specific about corner cases in the description of the $ RE syntax,
and include an example where the MULTILINE flag makes a real difference.
This closes SF bug #441600.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex index 4cadac1..cec5be2 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex @@ -96,10 +96,13 @@ specified, this matches any character including a newline. \item[\character{\^}] (Caret.) Matches the start of the string, and in \constant{MULTILINE} mode also matches immediately after each newline. -\item[\character{\$}] Matches the end of the string, and in -\constant{MULTILINE} mode also matches before a newline. -\regexp{foo} matches both 'foo' and 'foobar', while the regular -expression \regexp{foo\$} matches only 'foo'. +\item[\character{\$}] Matches the end of the string or just before the +newline at the end of the string, and in \constant{MULTILINE} mode +also matches before a newline. \regexp{foo} matches both 'foo' and +'foobar', while the regular expression \regexp{foo\$} matches only +'foo'. More interestingly, searching for \regexp{foo\e d} in +'foo1\textbackslash nfoo2\textbackslash n' matches 'foo2' normally, +but 'foo1' in \constant{MULTILINE} mode. \item[\character{*}] Causes the resulting RE to match 0 or more repetitions of the preceding RE, as many repetitions |