Revision: 1326
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=1326
Author: ph10
Date: 2013-05-10 15:21:41 +0100 (Fri, 10 May 2013)
Log Message:
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Clarify wording in description of PCRE_MULTILINE.
Modified Paths:
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code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3
Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3
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--- code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3 2013-05-10 14:03:18 UTC (rev 1325)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3 2013-05-10 14:21:41 UTC (rev 1326)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PCREAPI 3 "26 April 2013" "PCRE 8.33"
+.TH PCREAPI 3 "10 May 2013" "PCRE 8.33"
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.sp
@@ -741,12 +741,14 @@
.sp
PCRE_MULTILINE
.sp
-By default, PCRE treats the subject string as consisting of a single line of
-characters (even if it actually contains newlines). The "start of line"
-metacharacter (^) matches only at the start of the string, while the "end of
-line" metacharacter ($) matches only at the end of the string, or before a
-terminating newline (unless PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY is set). This is the same as
-Perl.
+By default, for the purposes of matching "start of line" and "end of line",
+PCRE treats the subject string as consisting of a single line of characters,
+even if it actually contains newlines. The "start of line" metacharacter (^)
+matches only at the start of the string, and the "end of line" metacharacter
+($) matches only at the end of the string, or before a terminating newline
+(except when PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY is set). Note, however, that unless
+PCRE_DOTALL is set, the "any character" metacharacter (.) does not match at a
+newline. This behaviour (for ^, $, and dot) is the same as Perl.
.P
When PCRE_MULTILINE it is set, the "start of line" and "end of line" constructs
match immediately following or immediately before internal newlines in the
@@ -2876,6 +2878,6 @@
.rs
.sp
.nf
-Last updated: 26 April 2013
+Last updated: 10 May 2013
Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
.fi
