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bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation |
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Wed, 06 May 2020 22:42:38 -0400 |
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> * concatenation and alternative
> * repetition: * + ? etc
> * bracketing: \(?: ... \)
> * single-character expressions: [...] '.' \cX etc
> * zero-width assertions: ^ $ \< etc
> * capture groups and backrefs
That list could be a starting point. (What is a "capture group"?
I have no idea.)
However, I don't think alternatives are very useful without
brackets, so brackets should come before alternatives.
I think single-character expressions
should come before repetition, because the former are more basic
and conceptually simpler.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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- bug#41006: 26.3; regular expressions documentation, Stefan Kangas, 2020/05/05
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