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authorchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>2021-03-11 16:36:41 +0000
committerchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>2021-03-11 16:36:41 +0000
commitc3150989ddeffa19f10be7bb97f52e1fa51e459e (patch)
tree3aaa7c14ed657275dc371b8e582152a24d35ecdb /lib/libc
parentb6c91a1e1e8245aae10bef6a06ca86a0a617b593 (diff)
improve wording.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/regex/regex.312
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/regex/regex.3 b/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
index b36ec05891e..d86f6e8d3eb 100644
--- a/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
+++ b/lib/libc/regex/regex.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: regex.3,v 1.29 2021/03/11 15:12:51 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: regex.3,v 1.30 2021/03/11 16:36:41 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994 Henry Spencer.
.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
@@ -200,8 +200,10 @@ Use backreference
.Dv N
where
.Dv N
-is between
-.Dv [1-9] .
+is a single digit number between
+.Dv 1
+and
+.Dv 9 .
.It \ea
Visual Bell
.It \eb
@@ -227,9 +229,9 @@ Alias for [[:alnum:]]
.It \eW
Alias for [^[:alnum:]]
.It \e'
-Matches the end of the subject.
+Matches the end of the subject string (the string to be matched).
.It \e`
-Matches the beginning of the subject.
+Matches the beginning of the subject string.
.El
.Pp
This is an extension,