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Re: [opensuse] regexp -- defference between \< and \b ? (fwd)
- From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:59:42 +0200 (CEST)
- Message-id: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805010859340.5623@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 2008-04-30 15:53, Randall R Schulz wrote:
PCRE does not seem to know \<, so \b is what you would want these days.
\< and \> seem archaic, there does not seem to be a \<-based pattern
that could not be expressed with \b.
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With regular expressions, what is the difference between \< and
\b ? The man page says:
Which man page? ...
Actually it comes from man grep. Specifically:
The Backslash Character and Special Expressions
The symbols \< and \> respectively match the empty string at
the beginning and end of a word. The symbol \b matches the empty
string at the edge of a word, ...
I guess it's been a long time since I've read the man page for the grep
family. I didn't realize \b and \B were a part of Gnu grep.
PCRE does not seem to know \<, so \b is what you would want these days.
\< and \> seem archaic, there does not seem to be a \<-based pattern
that could not be expressed with \b.
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