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changeset 27694:5c14849aee4c
documented \{n,m\} intervals
| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> |
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| date | Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:04:17 +0000 |
| parents | d8bedafef8d5 |
| children | 68feb13f9572 |
| files | man/search.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/search.texi Mon Feb 14 17:02:14 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/search.texi Mon Feb 14 17:04:17 2000 +0000 @@ -432,6 +432,17 @@ as they can, while if you append a @samp{?} after them, it makes them non-greedy: they will match as little as possible. +@item \@{n,m\@} +is another postfix operator that specifies an interval of iteration: +the preceding regular expression must match between @samp{n} and +@samp{m} times. If @samp{m} is omitted, then there is no upper bound +and if @samp{,m} is omitted, then the regular expression must match +exactly @samp{n} times. @* +@samp{\@{0,1\@}} is equivalent to @samp{?}. @* +@samp{\@{0,\@}} is equivalent to @samp{*}. @* +@samp{\@{1,\@}} is equivalent to @samp{+}. @* +@samp{\@{n\@}} is equivalent to @samp{\@{n,n\@}}. + @item [ @dots{} ] is a @dfn{character set}, which begins with @samp{[} and is terminated by @samp{]}. In the simplest case, the characters between the two