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'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
'\"
-'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: RegExp.3,v 1.13 2002/11/13 22:11:40 vincentdarley Exp $
+'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: RegExp.3,v 1.14 2004/09/06 09:44:57 dkf Exp $
'\"
.so man.macros
.TH Tcl_RegExpMatch 3 8.1 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures"
@@ -192,15 +192,15 @@ occurs while compiling the regular expression then
\fBTcl_GetRegExpFromObj\fR returns NULL and leaves an error message in
the interpreter result. The regular expression token can be used as
long as the internal representation of \fIpatObj\fR refers to the
-compiled form. The \fIeflags\fR argument is a bitwise OR of
+compiled form. The \fIeflags\fR argument is a bit-wise OR of
zero or more of the following flags that control the compilation of
\fIpatObj\fR:
.RS 2
.TP
\fBTCL_REG_ADVANCED\fR
Compile advanced regular expressions (`AREs'). This mode corresponds to
-the normal regular expression syntax accepted by the Tcl regexp and
-regsub commands.
+the normal regular expression syntax accepted by the Tcl \fBregexp\fR and
+\fBregsub\fR commands.
.TP
\fBTCL_REG_EXTENDED\fR
Compile extended regular expressions (`EREs'). This mode corresponds
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ regular expressions or strings. With this flag, `[^' bracket
expressions and `.' never match newline, `^' matches an empty string
after any newline in addition to its normal function, and `$' matches
an empty string before any newline in addition to its normal function.
-\fBREG_NEWLINE\fR is the bitwise OR of \fBREG_NLSTOP\fR and
+\fBREG_NEWLINE\fR is the bit-wise OR of \fBREG_NLSTOP\fR and
\fBREG_NLANCH\fR.
.TP
\fBTCL_REG_NLSTOP\fR
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ expressions and `.' never match newline.
.TP
\fBTCL_REG_NLANCH\fR
Compile for inverse partial newline-sensitive matching,
-with the behavior of
+with the behavior
of `^' and `$' (the ``anchors'') affected, but not the behavior of
`[^' bracket expressions and `.'. In this mode `^' matches an empty string
after any newline in addition to its normal function, and `$' matches
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ of subexpressions will be remembered. Matching begins at the
specified Unicode character index given by \fIoffset\fR. Unlike
\fBTcl_RegExpExec\fR, the behavior of anchors is not affected by the
offset value. Instead the behavior of the anchors is explicitly
-controlled by the \fIeflags\fR argument, which is a bitwise OR of
+controlled by the \fIeflags\fR argument, which is a bit-wise OR of
zero or more of the following flags:
.RS 2
.TP