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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/regex/re_format.7')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 b/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 index a2a527d..05b1494 100644 --- a/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 +++ b/lib/libc/regex/re_format.7 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)re_format.7 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/20/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd March 20, 1994 +.Dd June 30, 2014 .Dt RE_FORMAT 7 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -314,6 +314,13 @@ compatible with but not specified by .St -p1003.2 , and should be used with caution in software intended to be portable to other systems. +The additional word delimiters +.Ql \e< +and +.Ql \e> +are provided to ease compatibility with traditional +.Xr svr4 4 +systems but are not portable and should be avoided. .Pp In the event that an RE could match more than one substring of a given string, |
