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author Gerd Moellmann <gerd@gnu.org>
date Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:28:37 +0000
parents be313b2af8df
children 106595ce3db9
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon Dec 04 12:25:36 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Dec 04 12:28:37 2000 +0000
@@ -2584,8 +2584,10 @@
       Then return the value of RESULT, or nil if RESULT is omitted.
 
 +++
-** Regular expressions now support Posix character classes such
-as [:alpha:], [:space:] and so on.
+** Regular expressions now support Posix character classes such as
+[:alpha:], [:space:] and so on.  These must be used within a character
+class--for instance, [-[:digit:].+] matches digits or a period
+or a sign.
 
 [:digit:]  matches 0 through 9
 [:cntrl:]  matches ASCII control characters