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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2016-09-15 21:43:22 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2016-09-15 21:43:22 +0100
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Docs: mention Perl manpages for PCRE. Bug 1881
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@@ -6268,7 +6268,11 @@ Chapter &<<CHAPplaintext>>& covers both.
Exim supports the use of regular expressions in many of its options. It
uses the PCRE regular expression library; this provides regular expression
matching that is compatible with Perl 5. The syntax and semantics of
-regular expressions is discussed in many Perl reference books, and also in
+regular expressions is discussed in
+.new
+online Perl manpages, in
+.wen
+many Perl reference books, and also in
Jeffrey Friedl's &'Mastering Regular Expressions'&, which is published by
O'Reilly (see &url(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/)).