RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> writes: > I've noticed for some time that claws-mail and less (which I think use > libc's regex(3)) don't support word boundaries in searches. I might be > delusional, but I think I've used \b in the past in both of those > applications in FreeBSD. > > According to regex(3) it's an implementation POSIX.2, so the feature > needn't be supported, but at the bottom of the page it says > "word-boundary matching is a bit of a kludge", so presumably it has > been. > > Does anyone know what's going on? > > > I switched from i386 to amd64 last year so it might be something to do > with that. I'm currently using 8.2p6.
The only way I have found to do it is [[:<:]] and [[:>:]]. That is very awkward, so I't love to hear of a shorter way. I found them in the re_format(7) manpage. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
