--- code/trunk/doc/pcrecompat.3 2007/03/06 12:27:42 99 +++ code/trunk/doc/pcrecompat.3 2007/06/13 14:55:18 181 @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ .sp This document describes the differences in the ways that PCRE and Perl handle regular expressions. The differences described here are mainly with respect to -Perl 5.8, though PCRE version 7.0 contains some features that are expected to -be in the forthcoming Perl 5.10. +Perl 5.8, though PCRE versions 7.0 and later contain some features that are +expected to be in the forthcoming Perl 5.10. .P 1. PCRE has only a subset of Perl's UTF-8 and Unicode support. Details of what it does have are given in the @@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ meta-character matches only at the very end of the string. .sp (c) If PCRE_EXTRA is set, a backslash followed by a letter with no special -meaning is faulted. Otherwise, like Perl, the backslash is ignored. (Perl can -be made to issue a warning.) +meaning is faulted. Otherwise, like Perl, the backslash is quietly ignored. +(Perl can be made to issue a warning.) .sp (d) If PCRE_UNGREEDY is set, the greediness of the repetition quantifiers is inverted, that is, by default they are not greedy, but if followed by a @@ -132,6 +132,6 @@ .rs .sp .nf -Last updated: 06 March 2007 +Last updated: 13 June 2007 Copyright (c) 1997-2007 University of Cambridge. .fi