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| author | Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> | 2011-07-15 15:23:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> | 2011-07-15 15:25:37 +0200 |
| commit | 708b04abffa269253b92b35686e7852b7639adb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 62f4141ff6664fd267424b0ab8e8a270ed776feb /doc | |
| parent | d82e0fce03553b929dac59e3effabc54bb02058f (diff) | |
| download | grep-708b04abffa269253b92b35686e7852b7639adb7.tar.gz | |
doc: improve documentation of character classes in the man page
* doc/grep.in.1: Reword documentation of character classes.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/grep.in.1 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/grep.in.1 b/doc/grep.in.1 index e9b4589d..f1f68d0c 100644 --- a/doc/grep.in.1 +++ b/doc/grep.in.1 @@ -676,11 +676,10 @@ and .BR [:xdigit:]. For example, .B [[:alnum:]] -means -.BR [0\-9A\-Za\-z] , -except the latter form depends upon the C locale and the -\s-1ASCII\s0 character encoding, whereas the former is independent -of locale and character set. +means the character class of numbers and +letters in the current locale. In the C locale and \s-1ASCII\s0 +character set encoding, this is the same as +.BR [0\-9A\-Za\-z] . (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket expression.) |