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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-01-18 06:08:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2016-01-18 06:08:48 +0200 |
| commit | dd53cb380cc913ea1c2fa1a7df74c903adb2ef1a (patch) | |
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Minor improvement to doc on bracket expressions.
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 32602505..f38eff49 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -5774,6 +5774,10 @@ they do not recognize collating symbols or equivalence classes. @end quotation @c maybe one day ... +Inside a bracket expression, an opening bracket (@samp{[}) that does +not start a character class, collating element or equivalence class is +taken literally. This is also true of @samp{.} and @samp{*}. + @node Leftmost Longest @section How Much Text Matches? |