Revision: 560
http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre2?view=rev&revision=560
Author: ph10
Date: 2016-10-06 18:44:39 +0100 (Thu, 06 Oct 2016)
Log Message:
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Fix typos in documentation.
Modified Paths:
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code/trunk/doc/pcre2pattern.3
Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcre2pattern.3
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--- code/trunk/doc/pcre2pattern.3 2016-10-06 16:47:56 UTC (rev 559)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcre2pattern.3 2016-10-06 17:44:39 UTC (rev 560)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PCRE2PATTERN 3 "30 September 2016" "PCRE2 10.23"
+.TH PCRE2PATTERN 3 "06 October 2016" "PCRE2 10.23"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH "PCRE2 REGULAR EXPRESSION DETAILS"
@@ -359,8 +359,7 @@
40) is inverted. Thus \ecA to \ecZ become hex 01 to hex 1A (A is 41, Z is 5A),
but \ec{ becomes hex 3B ({ is 7B), and \ec; becomes hex 7B (; is 3B). If the
code unit following \ec has a value less than 32 or greater than 126, a
-compile-time error occurs. This locks out non-printable ASCII characters in all
-modes.
+compile-time error occurs.
.P
When PCRE2 is compiled in EBCDIC mode, \ea, \ee, \ef, \en, \er, and \et
generate the appropriate EBCDIC code values. The \ec escape is processed
@@ -369,19 +368,19 @@
other character provokes a compile-time error. The sequence \e@ encodes
character code 0; the letters (in either case) encode characters 1-26 (hex 01
to hex 1A); [, \e, ], ^, and _ encode characters 27-31 (hex 1B to hex 1F), and
-\e? becomes either 255 (hex FF) or 95 (hex 5F).
+\ec? becomes either 255 (hex FF) or 95 (hex 5F).
.P
-Thus, apart from \e?, these escapes generate the same character code values as
+Thus, apart from \ec?, these escapes generate the same character code values as
they do in an ASCII environment, though the meanings of the values mostly
-differ. For example, \eG always generates code value 7, which is BEL in ASCII
+differ. For example, \ecG always generates code value 7, which is BEL in ASCII
but DEL in EBCDIC.
.P
-The sequence \e? generates DEL (127, hex 7F) in an ASCII environment, but
+The sequence \ec? generates DEL (127, hex 7F) in an ASCII environment, but
because 127 is not a control character in EBCDIC, Perl makes it generate the
APC character. Unfortunately, there are several variants of EBCDIC. In most of
them the APC character has the value 255 (hex FF), but in the one Perl calls
POSIX-BC its value is 95 (hex 5F). If certain other characters have POSIX-BC
-values, PCRE2 makes \e? generate 95; otherwise it generates 255.
+values, PCRE2 makes \ec? generate 95; otherwise it generates 255.
.P
After \e0 up to two further octal digits are read. If there are fewer than two
digits, just those that are present are used. Thus the sequence \e0\ex\e015
@@ -3475,6 +3474,6 @@
.rs
.sp
.nf
-Last updated: 30 September 2016
+Last updated: 06 October 2016
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 University of Cambridge.
.fi
