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From: worley@compass.com (Dale Worley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Regexps (was Re: Changing the first character of a string.)
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Date: 6 Jul 90 14:12:47 GMT
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   From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)

   In article <1990Jul5.135434.11673@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>, worley@compass (Dale Worley) writes:
   | OK, where is it written down?

   Say "man egrep" on any sane machine.  Or "man ed" for an even older
   reference.

Well so it does.  However, that's new with SunOS 4.0.  On 3.5 "man
egrep" said there was no such topic -- you had to say "man grep".
(Whether you consider SunOS "sane" is a matter of debate...)  I will
also note that the Perl manual page nowhere mentions the egrep man
page -- it mentions the "version 8 regexp routines", which I don't
have, whatever they are.  ("man ed" is useless, because ed's regular
expressions are only a tiny subset of Perl's.)

But how about putting this stuff into the manual page?  I'm forever
trying to figure out exactly what the rules are for regexps in program
foo, because they're rarely exactly documented, or given as "exactly
like program bar except when there's a new moon and you're wearing a
yellow necktie..."  It'd be nice if Perl did it right.

Gripe, gripe,

Dale Worley		Compass, Inc.			worley@compass.com
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