goba Tue Dec 4 12:56:31 2001 EDT
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/functions pcre.xml
Log:
No need to explicitly specify list numbers and letters here.
They are implicit using the <orderedlist>...
Index: phpdoc/en/functions/pcre.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/functions/pcre.xml:1.64 phpdoc/en/functions/pcre.xml:1.65
--- phpdoc/en/functions/pcre.xml:1.64 Mon Dec 3 16:58:59 2001
+++ phpdoc/en/functions/pcre.xml Tue Dec 4 12:56:31 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.64 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.65 $ -->
<reference id="ref.pcre">
<title>Regular Expression Functions (Perl-Compatible)</title>
<titleabbrev>PCRE</titleabbrev>
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 3. Capturing subpatterns that occur inside negative looka-
+ Capturing subpatterns that occur inside negative looka-
head assertions are counted, but their entries in the
offsets vector are never set. Perl sets its numerical vari-
ables from any such patterns that are matched before the
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 4. Though binary zero characters are supported in the sub-
+ Though binary zero characters are supported in the sub-
ject string, they are not allowed in a pattern string
because it is passed as a normal C string, terminated by
zero. The escape sequence "\0" can be used in the pattern to
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 5. The following Perl escape sequences are not supported:
+ The following Perl escape sequences are not supported:
\l, \u, \L, \U, \E, \Q. In fact these are implemented by
Perl's general string-handling and are not part of its pat-
tern matching engine.
@@ -975,19 +975,19 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 6. The Perl \G assertion is not supported as it is not
+ The Perl \G assertion is not supported as it is not
relevant to single pattern matches.
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 7. Fairly obviously, PCRE does not support the (?{code})
+ Fairly obviously, PCRE does not support the (?{code})
construction.
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 8. There are at the time of writing some oddities in Perl
+ There are at the time of writing some oddities in Perl
5.005_02 concerned with the settings of captured strings
when part of a pattern is repeated. For example, matching
"aba" against the pattern /^(a(b)?)+$/ sets $2 to the value
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- 9. Another as yet unresolved discrepancy is that in Perl
+ Another as yet unresolved discrepancy is that in Perl
5.005_02 the pattern /^(a)?(?(1)a|b)+$/ matches the string
"a", whereas in PCRE it does not. However, in both Perl and
PCRE /^(a)?a/ matched against "a" leaves $1 unset.
@@ -1009,12 +1009,12 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- 10. PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular
+ PCRE provides some extensions to the Perl regular
expression facilities:
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- (a) Although lookbehind assertions must match fixed length
+ Although lookbehind assertions must match fixed length
strings, each alternative branch of a lookbehind assertion
can match a different length of string. Perl 5.005 requires
them all to have the same length.
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- (b) If <link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY</link> is set
and
+ If <link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY</link> is set and
<link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_MULTILINE</link> is not
set, the $ meta- character matches only at the very end of
the string.
@@ -1030,13 +1030,13 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- (c) If <link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_EXTRA</link> is set, a
backslash followed by a letter
+ If <link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_EXTRA</link> is set, a backslash
+followed by a letter
with no special meaning is faulted.
</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>
- (d) If <link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_UNGREEDY</link> is set, the
greediness of the repeti-
+ If <link linkend="pcre.pattern.modifiers">PCRE_UNGREEDY</link> is set, the
+greediness of the repeti-
tion quantifiers is inverted, that is, by default they are
not greedy, but if followed by a question mark they are.
</simpara>
