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diff --git a/httpd/patterns.7 b/httpd/patterns.7 index 1eeef4c..7c951db 100644 --- a/httpd/patterns.7 +++ b/httpd/patterns.7 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD$ +.\" $OpenBSD: patterns.7,v 1.2 2015/06/23 17:29:19 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2015 Reyk Floeter <reyk@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio. @@ -23,19 +23,19 @@ .\" SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. .\" .\" Derived from section 6.4.1 in manual.html of Lua 5.3.1: -.\" $Id: manual.of,v 1.151 2015/06/10 21:08:57 roberto Exp $ +.\" $Id: patterns.7,v 1.2 2015/06/23 17:29:19 jmc Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: Jun 19 2015 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: June 23 2015 $ .Dt PATTERNS 7 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm patterns -.Nd Lua's pattern matching rules. +.Nd Lua's pattern matching rules .Sh DESCRIPTION Pattern matching in .Xr httpd 8 is based on the implementation of the Lua scripting language and -provides a simple and fast alternative to Regular expressions (REs) that +provides a simple and fast alternative to the regular expressions (REs) that are described in .Xr re_format 7 . Patterns are described by regular strings, which are interpreted as @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ functions. This document describes the syntax and the meaning (that is, what they match) of these strings. .Sh CHARACTER CLASS -.Pp A character class is used to represent a set of characters. The following combinations are allowed in describing a character class: @@ -90,7 +89,7 @@ is any non-alphanumeric character) represents the character This is the standard way to escape the magic characters. Any non-alphanumeric character (including all punctuation characters, even the non-magical) can be preceded by a -.Eq % +.Sq % when used to represent itself in a pattern. .It Bq Ar set represents the class which is the union of all @@ -172,7 +171,7 @@ Unlike these repetition items will always match the shortest possible sequence; .It a single character class followed by -.Sq \? , +.Sq \&? , which matches zero or one occurrence of a character in the class. It always matches one occurrence if possible; .It @@ -189,7 +188,7 @@ and .Ar y are two distinct characters; such item matches strings that start with -.Ar x, +.Ar x , end with .Ar y , and where the @@ -198,7 +197,7 @@ and .Ar y are .Em balanced . -This means that, if one reads the string from left to right, counting +This means that if one reads the string from left to right, counting .Em +1 for an .Ar x @@ -237,12 +236,12 @@ A caret at the beginning of a pattern anchors the match at the beginning of the subject string. A -.Sq \$ +.Sq $ at the end of a pattern anchors the match at the end of the subject string. At other positions, .Sq ^ and -.Sq \$ +.Sq $ have no special meaning and represent themselves. .Sh CAPTURES A pattern can contain sub-patterns enclosed in parentheses; they @@ -272,8 +271,8 @@ on the string there will be two captures: 3 and 5. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr fnmatch 3 , -.Xr re_format 3 , -.Xr httpd 8 . +.Xr re_format 7 , +.Xr httpd 8 .Rs .%A Roberto Ierusalimschy .%A Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo @@ -292,7 +291,7 @@ an implementation based on Lua 5.3.1 appeared in .Ox 5.8 . .Sh AUTHORS The pattern matching is derived from the original implementation of -the Lua scripting language, that is written by +the Lua scripting language written by .An -nosplit .An Roberto Ierusalimschy , .An Waldemar Celes , |