From 6261cc257bb885019c73acc2ea7bc1b703dabf53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "timeless%mac.com" Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 18:31:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Bugzilla Bug 90598 spelling and minor syntactic correctness r=zach git-svn-id: svn://10.0.0.236/trunk@110905 18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43 --- mozilla/webtools/bonsai/cvsregexp.html | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/bonsai/cvsregexp.html b/mozilla/webtools/bonsai/cvsregexp.html index f415395ffbd..8db3bee8224 100644 --- a/mozilla/webtools/bonsai/cvsregexp.html +++ b/mozilla/webtools/bonsai/cvsregexp.html @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ Regular expressions are a powerful way of specifying complex searches. And that is aimed to conform to POSIX 1003.2. MySQL uses the extended version. -

To get more exact information see Henry Spencers regex.7 manual. +

To get more exact information see Henry Spencer's regex.7 manual.

This is a simplistic reference that skips the details. From here on -a regualr expressions is called a regexp. +a regular expression is called a regexp.

A regular expression describes a set of strings. The simplest case is one that has no special characters in it. For example the regexp hello @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ matches hello and nothing else. they can match more than one string. For example, the regexp hello|word matches either the string hello or the string word. -

And a more comples example regexp B[an]*s matches any of the +

And a more complex example regexp B[an]*s matches any of the strings Bananas, Baaaaas, Bs and all other string starting with a B and continuing with any number of a n and ending with a s.