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| author | наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz> | 2023-04-21 04:49:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-04-21 13:43:34 +0200 |
| commit | 418ef65efaf5ec73eb54022c6661ca9696a62d0c (patch) | |
| tree | d2dfc9ef5922ac3c83ed911d90b1429c74c7ac7a | |
| parent | c775ee2259ff84bb9797e214870e5cfe74f1c070 (diff) | |
regex.3: Further clarify the sole purpose of REG_NOSUB
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/3459b2a0-6a07-40fc-1e66-db906c3f62ac@gmail.com/T/#mb50a957359e029c611d6e0b8f1b1a20101aae670>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/regex.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3 index 702a7645c..a5a8e0260 100644 --- a/man3/regex.3 +++ b/man3/regex.3 @@ -96,16 +96,14 @@ Subsequent searches using this pattern buffer will be case insensitive. .TP .B REG_NOSUB -Do not report position of matches. -The -.I nmatch -and -.I pmatch +Report only overall success. .BR regexec () -arguments will be ignored for this purpose (but +will use only .I pmatch -may still be used for -.BR REG_STARTEND ). +for +.BR REG_STARTEND , +ignoring +.IR nmatch . .TP .B REG_NEWLINE Match-any-character operators don't match a newline. |