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| author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2001-03-25 18:14:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2001-03-25 18:14:31 +0000 |
| commit | 39ceedf5e04f131af8432ecc7c3e3503b560203b (patch) | |
| tree | 5dca1e2ec24b1decdc66f4243071a80e631c81f3 | |
| parent | 42eaad0575c920ae1a95eaed4b6f7742be8e91db (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-39ceedf5e04f131af8432ecc7c3e3503b560203b.tar.gz postgresql-39ceedf5e04f131af8432ecc7c3e3503b560203b.zip | |
The regexp pattern characters ^ and $ should be explained as matching
at the beginning and end of the input string, not the beginning and end
of "a line", since Postgres does not allow them to match at newline
characters in the data.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/func.sgml | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml index 071a457bcb7..d8dde6270ae 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.55 2001/03/15 01:07:51 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml,v 1.56 2001/03/25 18:14:31 tgl Exp $ --> <chapter id="functions"> <title>Functions and Operators</title> @@ -1205,9 +1205,9 @@ expression), an empty set of <literal>()</literal> (matching the null string), a <firstterm>bracket expression</firstterm> (see below), <literal>.</literal> (matching any single character), - <literal>^</literal> (matching the null string at the beginning of - a line), <literal>$</literal> (matching the null string at the end - of a line), a <literal>\</literal> followed by one of the + <literal>^</literal> (matching the null string at the beginning of the + input string), <literal>$</literal> (matching the null string at the end + of the input string), a <literal>\</literal> followed by one of the characters <literal>^.[$()|*+?{\</literal> (matching that character taken as an ordinary character), a <literal>\</literal> followed by any other character (matching that character taken as |