diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/ref/api-regex.texi')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/ref/api-regex.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ref/api-regex.texi b/doc/ref/api-regex.texi index f95eddbae..b14c2b39c 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-regex.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-regex.texi @@ -38,10 +38,11 @@ regex))}. @node Regexp Functions @subsection Regexp Functions -By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions. -That means that the characters @samp{(}, @samp{)}, @samp{+} and -@samp{?} are special, and must be escaped if you wish to match the -literal characters. +By default, Guile supports POSIX extended regular expressions. That +means that the characters @samp{(}, @samp{)}, @samp{+} and @samp{?} are +special, and must be escaped if you wish to match the literal characters +and there is no support for ``non-greedy'' variants of @samp{*}, +@samp{+} or @samp{?}. This regular expression interface was modeled after that implemented by SCSH, the Scheme Shell. It is intended to be |